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I consider myself pretty experienced at shell-fu and capable of doing most things I set out to achieve in either bash scripts or fearless one-liners. However, m

I consider myself pretty experienced at shell-fu and capable of doing most things I set out to achieve in either bash scripts or fearless one-liners. However, my awk is rudimentary at best, I think mostly because it's such an unforgiving environment to experiment in. These books you've written are great for a bit of first principles insight and then quickly building up to functional usage. I will have no hesitation in referring colleagues to them! Do you have a patreon or something similar? Do you accept pull requests for collaboration? Thanks for creating such great free material!

parentheses 4y ago
I suggest: C-x C-e in the CLI (not sure if it’s zsh only) will open your command line in your $EDITOR - useful to get code highlighting and write multi line commands if that’s the blocker. The problem is iterating. OR Pipe your awk input to a file and then use this thing I wrote to build up your awk program. I use it most often with `jq`. https://github.com/bigH/interactively https://github.com/bigH/interactively
asicsp 4y ago
Thanks a lot for the feedback :) Curious about what kind of issues you had with `awk`. Perhaps https://awk.js.org/ https://awk.js.org/ could help? >Do you have a patreon or something similar? I pay my bills by selling PDF/EPUB versions of these books. Purchase links are mentioned in the 'Buy' page. You can also visit https://learnbyexample.gumroad.com/ https://learnbyexample.gumroad.com/ or https://leanpub.com/u/learnbyexample https://leanpub.com/u/learnbyexample >Do you accept pull requests for collaboration? Not currently. You can file issues on GitHub (links are mentioned in the preface chapter) for typos/bugs/suggestions/etc. Markdown source for these books are also available on GitHub.
- kungfufrog 4y ago
  That AWK REPL in JS is amazing! Just what I need for a playground to refine my understanding of its language. Thank you! I will consider buying the books and spread the word :) Thanks again!
dc-programmer 4y ago
The AWK Programming Language is great too. Every technical book should be written this way: describe feature, show feature through example, include cookbooks of useful commands. https://ia903404.us.archive.org/0/items/pdfy-MgN0H1joIoDVoIC7/The_AWK_Programming_Language.pdf https://ia903404.us.archive.org/0/items/pdfy-MgN0H1joIoDVoIC...
- kungfufrog 4y ago
  Thanks for the link, had a quick peruse, looks very comprehensive!

parentheses 4y ago

I suggest: C-x C-e in the CLI (not sure if it’s zsh only) will open your command line in your $EDITOR - useful to get code highlighting and write multi line commands if that’s the blocker. The problem is iterating. OR Pipe your awk input to a file and then use this thing I wrote to build up your awk program. I use it most often with `jq`. https://github.com/bigH/interactively https://github.com/bigH/interactively

asicsp 4y ago

Thanks a lot for the feedback :) Curious about what kind of issues you had with `awk`. Perhaps https://awk.js.org/ https://awk.js.org/ could help? >Do you have a patreon or something similar? I pay my bills by selling PDF/EPUB versions of these books. Purchase links are mentioned in the 'Buy' page. You can also visit https://learnbyexample.gumroad.com/ https://learnbyexample.gumroad.com/ or https://leanpub.com/u/learnbyexample https://leanpub.com/u/learnbyexample >Do you accept pull requests for collaboration? Not currently. You can file issues on GitHub (links are mentioned in the preface chapter) for typos/bugs/suggestions/etc. Markdown source for these books are also available on GitHub.

kungfufrog 4y ago
That AWK REPL in JS is amazing! Just what I need for a playground to refine my understanding of its language. Thank you! I will consider buying the books and spread the word :) Thanks again!

dc-programmer 4y ago

The AWK Programming Language is great too. Every technical book should be written this way: describe feature, show feature through example, include cookbooks of useful commands. https://ia903404.us.archive.org/0/items/pdfy-MgN0H1joIoDVoIC7/The_AWK_Programming_Language.pdf https://ia903404.us.archive.org/0/items/pdfy-MgN0H1joIoDVoIC...

kungfufrog 4y ago
Thanks for the link, had a quick peruse, looks very comprehensive!