From Amazon.com, April 24, 2007
Reviewer: Jonathan S. Mark, Alexandria VA
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"The author shows how one-line Perl commands can perform
tasks for which one might otherwise use sed or grep."
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"In many cases the Perl command includes additional features
not always found in the equivalent UNIX command."
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"I have found this book invaluable in helping me to automate
maintenance tasks on my website."
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From Amazon.com, February 5, 2007
Reviewer: Brian Wisti, Professional Geek, Coolnamehere.com
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"Minimal Perl is written in a relaxed, light-hearted manner which still
manages to convey thoughts very clearly."
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"You practice using Perl in combination with other shell
tools and then as a complete replacement for those tools."
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"You will learn a lot about the differences between
Perl and the shell tools"
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"Even the first 20 pages were enlightening
…
My new
understanding of -l, -n, and -p meant that I
could suddenly whip out a
quick one-liner for a simple task, rather than write too many lines of
C-style
[Perl]
code for the same job."
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"The concepts
from this book have saved my tush a few times already"
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"This book is being promoted as a Perl introduction for those who are
already familiar with other popular shell tools such as grep,
sed, and awk
…
I
[also]
recommend this book to anyone who knows Perl but hasn't used it to do any
…
work in the shell."
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From Amazon.com, January 18, 2007
Reviewer: Farrukhy, Cincy, OH
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"Simply the best Perl book I have read"
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"I did manage to pick up sed and awk fairly quickly
…
I've been trying to learn Perl for a while now
…
This book took that knowledge and converted it into simple
one-line Perl programs!"
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"After a couple of days, I had enough background to start using simple
scripts in Perl that could do a whole lot more than awk and sed."
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"I have enough background in Perl now to start using the Camel book"
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"it's always tough for me to start a new language. This book made it very
easy to start on Perl. Easily my favorite book now."
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From Amazon.com, November 11, 2006
Reviewer: William "vi Bill" Julien, HPC UNIX Performance Analyst, Fortune 100 Company
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"Perl is a powerful language [but] it provides
…
little guidance on how the programmer can effectively make well-written programs.
The goal of
…
the book is to teach an effective programming approach."
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"the book leverages on the reader's capabilities"
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"clear and concise writing style"
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"provides survival skills that one needs to meet office deadlines as well as techniques to improve even the most experienced Perl programmer"
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From Amazon.com, October 22, 2006
Reviewer: Jeremy Mates, Programmer/Analyst, Amazon.com
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"Great Unix Data Wrangling Cookbook and Reference"
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"I consider myself adept on the Unix command line, though I learned
several new commands and best practices from this text."
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"Recommended to those who do, or want to, spend time wrangling data on Unix."
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"may obviate the need for 'Learning Perl' or a similar introductory Perl text."
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