Introduction

Abstract

This book aims at the total beginner. However, if you know something about computers but not about programming, the book will still be useful for you. After introducing the basics of how to work in the Unix/Linux environment, some great tools will be presented. Among these are the stream line editor sed and the script-oriented programming languages awk and perl. These utilities are extremely helpful when it comes to formatting and analyzing data files. After you have worked through all the chapters, you can use this book as a reference. The learning approach is absolutely practically oriented. Thus, you are invited to run all examples, printed in so-called Terminals, on your own!