I am looking for a book about the Unix command-line toolkit (sh, grep, sed, awk, cut, etc.) that I read some time ago. It was an excellent book, but I totally forgot its name. The great thing about this specific book was the running example. It showed how to implement a university bookkeeping system using only text-processing tools. You would find a student by name with grep, update grades with sed, calculate average grades with awk, attach grades to IDs with cut, and so on. If my memory serve, this book had a black cover, and was published circa 1980.
Does anyone remember this book? I would appreciate any help in finding it.
Best Answer
Using UNIX by Example, P.C Poole & N. Poole ?
http://books.google.co.uk/books?ei=dhs4TZrROcnpgQfq4bTGCA&ct=result&id=LK9QAAAAMAAJ&dq=grep+student+name&q=grades#search_anchor
and on Amazon at http://www.amazon.com/Using-Unix-Example-P-Poole/dp/0201185350