Re: grep

[Bob Proulx]

Jasper Hartline wrote:
> Where can I pick up a text book for sale that covers grep in detail, my 
> search through the Oreilly series has come up nil.
>   If you could point me in the right direction that would be great 
> thanks, I need to learn grep for my Systems administration classes.
> Reply to :   address@hidden

I don't think there is a book specifically on grep.  Not to slight
grep but usually grep is at most a chapter of a book.  So I don't
think you will find an entire volume dedicated to it.

Probably the part you are having trouble with is the pattern matching
portion of the program usually known as regular expressions.  This is
the engine in many other programs not only grep but also sed, awk,
perl, ruby, and many others programs too.  There is an O'Reilly book
dedicated completely to regular expressions called Mastering Regular
Expressions.  I have not even looked at it briefly and so I can't say
more than having seen it on people's book shelves.

My recommendation would be to use a web search engine like google and
search for "grep tutorial".  I did that just now and came up with
several interesting references.

Bob