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I use my ebooks for reference:

* GNU grep and ripgrep (https://learnbyexample.github.io/learn_gnugrep_ripgrep/)

* GNU sed (https://learnbyexample.github.io/learn_gnused/)

* GNU awk (https://learnbyexample.github.io/learn_gnuawk/)

* Ruby one-liners cookbook (https://learnbyexample.github.io/learn_ruby_oneliners/)

* Perl one-liners cookbook (https://learnbyexample.github.io/learn_perl_oneliners/)

* Command line text processing with GNU Coreutils (https://learnbyexample.github.io/cli_text_processing_coreuti...)

* Command line text processing with Rust tools (https://learnbyexample.github.io/cli_text_processing_rust/) — work-in-progress

* Computing from the Command Line (https://learnbyexample.github.io/cli-computing/) — work-in-progress

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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, 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!

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-MgN0H1joIoDVoIC...

Thanks for the link, had a quick peruse, looks very comprehensive!

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.

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!

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.

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

I stumbled upon your vi post a few days ago, really like the style. Keep it up!

Thanks a lot for the feedback, feels great to know the content style suited well for you :)

I see you sell your books as ebooks (awesome BTW), but there's no print option. I've been looking into publishing methods for a book I've been writing, and having a print copy is very appealing (I'm a big physical book fan, personally). I see a lot of modern software books are digital only. Is this due to the margins on print being much lower than digital? Print on demand is a really neat concept to me, but seems to come at a cost.

Just curious to hear from someone who's been around the block with this.

I haven't really looked into print on demand. I started with ebooks since that seemed the easiest option for me. And it is easy for readers to get updated versions.

My books are around 100 pages and I've seen a few readers mentioning that they just print it themselves.

Great work! Seriously cool e-books!

(edit: reading this i sound like a jerk. wasn’t trying to be one.) However, these are books not cheat sheets. Cheat sheets are about glance ability and one page ness.

That's a fair point, something like `tldr` and `cheat.sh` mentioned elsewhere in this thread.

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