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1    Finding Information with Regular Expressions and the grep Command
1.1    Forming Regular Expressions
1.1.1    Basic Regular Expressions
1.1.2    Extended Regular Expressions
1.1.3    Matching Multiple Occurrences of a Regular Expression
1.1.4    Matching Only Selected Characters
1.1.5    Specifying Multiple Regular Expressions
1.1.6    Special Collating Considerations in Regular Expressions
1.2    Using the grep Command

2    Matching Patterns and Processing Information with awk
2.1    Versions of the awk Utility
2.2    Running the awk Program
2.3    Printing in awk
2.4    Using Variables in awk
2.4.1    Simple Variables
2.4.2    Field Variables
2.4.3    Array Variables
2.4.4    Built-In awk Variables
2.5    More About Using Regular Expressions as Patterns
2.6    Using Relational Expressions and Combined Expressions as Patterns
2.7    Using Pattern Ranges
2.8    Actions in awk
2.9    Using Operators in an Action
2.10    Using Functions Within an Action
2.11    Using Control Structures in awk
2.12    Performing Actions Before or After Processing the Input
2.13    Concatenating Strings
2.14    Redirection and Pipes

3    Editing Files with the sed Editor
3.1    Overview of the sed Editor
3.2    Running the sed Editor
3.3    Selecting Lines for Editing
3.4    Summary of sed Commands
3.5    String Replacement

4    Creating Input Language Analyzers and Parsers
4.1    How the Lexical Analyzer Works
4.2    Writing a Lexical Analyzer Program with lex
4.3    The lex Specification File
4.3.1    Defining Substitution Strings
4.3.2    Rules
4.3.2.1    Regular Expressions
4.3.2.2    Matching Rules
4.3.2.2.1    Using Wildcard Characters to Match a String
4.3.2.2.2    Finding Strings Within Strings
4.3.2.3    Actions
4.3.2.3.1    Null Action
4.3.2.3.2    Using the Same Action for Multiple Expressions
4.3.2.3.3    Printing a Matched String
4.3.2.3.4    Finding the Length of a Matched String
4.3.2.3.5    Getting More Input
4.3.2.3.6    Returning Characters to the Input
4.3.3    Using or Overriding Standard Input/Output Routines
4.3.4    End-of-File Processing
4.3.5    Passing Code to the Generated Program
4.3.6    Start Conditions
4.4    Generating a Lexical Analyzer
4.5    Using lex with yacc
4.6    Creating a Parser with yacc
4.6.1    The main and yyerror Functions
4.6.2    The yylex Function
4.7    The Grammar File
4.7.1    Declarations
4.7.1.1    Defining Global Variables
4.7.1.2    Start Symbols
4.7.1.3    Token Numbers
4.7.2    Grammar Rules
4.7.2.1    Null String
4.7.2.2    End-of-Input Marker
4.7.2.3    Actions in yacc Parsers
4.7.3    Programs
4.7.4    Guidelines for Using Grammar Files
4.7.4.1    Using Comments
4.7.4.2    Using Literal Strings
4.7.4.3    Guidelines for Formatting the Grammar File
4.7.4.4    Using Recursion in a Grammar File
4.7.4.5    Errors in the Grammar File
4.7.5    Error Handling by the Parser
4.7.5.1    Providing for Error Correcting
4.7.5.2    Clearing the Look-Ahead Token
4.8    Parser Operation
4.8.1    The shift Action
4.8.2    The reduce Action
4.8.3    Ambiguous Rules and Parser Conflicts
4.9    Turning on Debug Mode
4.10    Creating a Simple Calculator Program
4.10.1    Parser Source Code
4.10.2    Lexical Analyzer Source Code

5    Using m4 Macros in Your Programs
5.1    Using Macros
5.2    Defining Macros
5.2.1    Using the Quote Characters
5.2.2    Macro Arguments
5.3    Using Other m4 Macros
5.3.1    Changing the Comment Characters
5.3.2    Changing the Quote Characters
5.3.3    Removing a Macro Definition
5.3.4    Checking for a Defined Macro
5.3.5    Using Integer Arithmetic
5.3.6    Manipulating Files
5.3.7    Redirecting Output
5.3.8    Using System Programs in a Program
5.3.9    Using Unique File Names
5.3.10    Using Conditional Expressions
5.3.11    Manipulating Strings
5.3.12    Printing

6    Revision Control: Managing Source Files with RCS or SCCS
6.1    Overview of Revision Control
6.2    Version Control Concepts
6.3    Managing Multiple Versions of Files
6.4    Creating a Version Control Library
6.5    Using RCS
6.5.1    Placing New Files in an RCS Library
6.5.2    Recording File-Indentification Information with RCS
6.5.3    Getting Files from an RCS Library
6.5.4    Checking Edited Files Back into an RCS Library
6.5.5    Working with Multiple Versions of Files
6.5.6    Displaying Differences in RCS Files
6.5.7    Reporting Revision Histories of RCS Files
6.5.8    Configuration Control Concepts
6.6    Using SCCS
6.6.1    Placing New Files in an SCCS Library
6.6.2    Recording File-Identification Information with SCCS
6.6.3    Getting Files from an SCCS Library
6.6.3.1    Getting Files for Purposes Other Than Editing
6.6.3.2    Getting Files for Editing
6.6.3.3    Managing Multiple Files and New Releases
6.6.4    Checking Edited Files Back into an SCCS Library
6.6.5    Working with Multiple Versions of Files
6.6.6    Displaying Differences in SCCS Files
6.6.7    Reporting Revision Histories of SCCS Files
6.6.8    Performing Administrative Functions
6.6.9    Using SCCS Options
6.6.10    Summary of Individual SCCS Commands
6.7    Functional Comparison of RCS and SCCS Commands

7    Building Programs with the make Utility
7.1    Operation of the make Utility
7.2    Description Files
7.2.1    Format of a Description File Entry
7.2.2    Using Commands in a Description File
7.2.3    Preventing the make Utility from Echoing Commands
7.2.4    Preventing the make Utility from Stopping on Errors
7.2.5    Defining Default Conditions
7.2.6    Preventing make from Deleting Files
7.2.7    Simple Description File
7.2.8    Making the Description File Simpler
7.2.9    Defining Macros
7.2.10    Using Macros in a Description File
7.2.10.1    Macro Substitution
7.2.10.2    Conditional Macros
7.2.11    Calling the make Utility from a Description File
7.2.12    Internal Macros
7.2.12.1    Internal Target File Name Macro
7.2.12.2    Internal Label Name Macro
7.2.12.3    Internal Younger Files Macro
7.2.12.4    Internal First Out-of-Date File Macro
7.2.12.5    Internal Current File Name Prefix Macro
7.2.13    How make Uses Environment Variables
7.2.14    Internal Rules
7.2.14.1    Single Suffix Rules
7.2.14.2    Overriding Built-In make Macros
7.2.15    Including Other Files
7.2.16    Testing Description Files
7.2.17    Description File

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