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Not very modern, but still a learning tool, Unix Text Processing [0] taught me tons about unix commands and utilities. It provided a foundation for things to come. Even if it's heavily into troff (we had DWB on the work computer) the shell, awk, sed and other commands (Chapter 12) were invaluable. Perl came later!

> Unix Text Processing (Hayden Books)

> Unix Text Processing, by Dale Dougherty and Tim O'Reilly, was published by Hayden Books in 1987, back when O'Reilly & Associates wrote technical documentation for hire. Hayden later took the book out of print, but Dale and Tim retained the copyright and have decided to make it available through our web site under Creative Commons' Attribution License.

> Unix Text Processing is available in the following ways:

    A single PDF file via HTTP [1] and others ...

For what it's worth, I used grap, pic and troff to process lab data, create graphs and insert them into reports. On Sun-2 workstsations!

[0] https://www.oreilly.com/openbook/utp/

[1] https://www.oreilly.com/openbook/utp/UnixTextProcessing.pdf (checked)