Looking for an old classic book about Unix command-line tools

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Published on 2011-01-12T09:39:57Z Indexed on 2011/01/12 9:58 UTC
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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.

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