Definitive Guide to sed: Tutorial and Reference Paperback – April 7, 2013

If you use Linux, want to learn sed, and don't need to deal with multiple languages or different versions of *nix, this book, rather than the O'Reilly book sed & awk, is the way to go. Goldman doesn't get bogged down in all the ins and outs of POSIX but rather focuses on just getting the job done. It is GNU sed only without worrying about other versions of *nix or sed. The information in the O'Reilly book is no doubt useful to hardcore sys-ops but is overkill for Linux hobbyists who who just want to learn sed. Many, many examples. One of the examples may be exactly what you want to do!

This text provides an excellent coverage of GNU sed. I'd also recommend O'Reilly's sed&awk, but whereas that one focuses on POSIX sed, this text covers the GNU version, which is what most people are going to be using. GNU introduces a few new options and instructions that are not in POSIX and this book discusses those as well. Simple examples are provided for every concept discussed.

This provides a great tutorial for gnu sed, and also POSIX sed. I like it better than the O'Reilly sed/awk books, and I think it's much better than most online tutorials. The book has a praise by the previous maintainer of gnu sed.

I have read the awk and sed 2nd edition by arnold robbins and several other books and tutorials. This book is by far the best and most complete reference to sed that is available. This book is definitely worth the purchase.

This book taught me everything I needed to know about sed. It’s very thorough.

Cheap and excellent book for learning to use sed

The book used concepts in chapters that were introduced later in the book. It doesn't flow very well at all.

SED isn't easy to learn without a good guide. This book is very clear and full of examples.

You will learn sed if you keep it up. The book is organized perfectly.

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Everything you want to know about sed.

At first I bought O'Reilly's "Awk and Sed", but it is really old. The examples it refers to are TROFF text formatting (troff is a pre HTML formatting language used for typesetting). Finally I bought Daniel Goldman's "Definitive Guide to Sed", and it was... definitive! Easy to follow examples, in depth explanation of the Pattern Space, etc. Everything is here. The final adendum on commom "companion" text tools like GREP are a plus. Five stars, indeed.

This is probably one of the best ways to learn sed, a very useful tool especially when you are inundated with a lot of text processing. The book clearly explains how sed actually works, which makes things easier to understand.