The Unix Programming Environment by Kernighan and Pike and The AWK Programming Language are still the best books one can read about Unix text manipulation, and about Unix, period. (Part of the point is that in Unix text is supposed to be the universal language).
Handbook of Text manipulation on Unix
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Re: Handbook of Text manipulation on Unix
#22Good post. How can I tell if a tool supports UTF-8 (or some other encoding) or not?
Re: Handbook of Text manipulation on Unix
#23One useful addition to the section on streams would have been that of process substitution: http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/process-sub.html This allows you to have more than just the standard streams.
not POSIX.
Re: Handbook of Text manipulation on Unix
#24If you like this, then check out Unix Power Tools. It's full of exactly this kind of stuff, with broader and deeper coverage. I highly recommend it -- I consider it one of the top ten or so books for a new programmer to spend some time with.
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#25Related to this, pyp is worth taking a look at if you're interested in doing manipulation using python's libraries, but on the command line: http://code.google.com/p/pyp/
That's very similar to