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Comment by kungfufrog

4 years ago

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!

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asicsp  4 years ago

Thanks a lot for the feedback :)

Curious about what kind of issues you had with `awk`. Perhaps 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/ or 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  4 years 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!

parentheses  4 years 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