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Arnold Robbins

Biography

Arnold Robbins, an Atlanta native, is a professional programmer and technical author. He has worked with Unix systems since 1980, when he was introduced to a PDP-11 running a version of Sixth Edition Unix. He has been a heavy AWK user since 1987, when he became involved with gawk, the GNU project's version of AWK. As a member of the POSIX 1003.2 balloting group, he helped shape the POSIX standard for AWK. He is currently the maintainer of gawk and its documentation. He is also coauthor of the sixth edition of O'Reilly's Learning the vi Editor. Since late 1997, he and his family have been living happily in Israel.

Books

Linux in a Nutshell Linux in a Nutshell
by Ellen Siever , Stephen Figgins , Robert Love , Arnold Robbins
Sixth Edition September 2009 (est.)
Print: $44.99

Learning the vi and Vim Editors Learning the vi and Vim Editors
by Arnold Robbins , Linda Lamb , Elbert Hannah
Seventh Edition July 2008
Print: $34.99
Ebook: $27.99
Bundle: $45.49
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bash Quick Reference bash Quick Reference
by Arnold Robbins
June 2006
Print: $9.99
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Unix in a Nutshell Unix in a Nutshell
by Arnold Robbins
Fourth Edition October 2005
Print: $34.95
Ebook: $27.99
Bundle: $45.44
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Linux in a Nutshell Linux in a Nutshell
by Ellen Siever , Aaron Weber , Stephen Figgins , Robert Love , Arnold Robbins
Fifth Edition July 2005
Print: $44.95
Ebook: $35.99
Bundle: $58.44
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Classic Shell Scripting Classic Shell Scripting
by Arnold Robbins , Nelson H.F. Beebe
May 2005
Print: $34.95
Ebook: $27.99
Bundle: $45.44
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GDB Pocket Reference GDB Pocket Reference
by Arnold Robbins
May 2005
Print: $9.95
Ebook: $7.99
Bundle: $12.93

sed and awk Pocket Reference sed and awk Pocket Reference
by Arnold Robbins
Second Edition June 2002
Print: $9.95
Ebook: $7.99
Bundle: $12.93
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Learning the Korn Shell Learning the Korn Shell
by Bill Rosenblatt , Arnold Robbins
Second Edition April 2002
Print: $34.95
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Effective awk Programming Effective awk Programming
by Arnold Robbins
Third Edition May 2001
Print: $44.99

sed, awk and Regular Expressions Pocket Reference sed, awk and Regular Expressions Pocket Reference
by Arnold Robbins
January 2000
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UNIX in a Nutshell UNIX in a Nutshell
by Arnold Robbins
Third Edition September 1999
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vi Editor Pocket Reference vi Editor Pocket Reference
by Arnold Robbins
January 1999
Print: $9.95
Ebook: $7.99
Bundle: $12.93
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Learning the vi Editor Learning the vi Editor
by Linda Lamb , Arnold Robbins
Sixth Edition November 1998
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sed & awk sed & awk
by Dale Dougherty , Arnold Robbins
Second Edition March 1997
Print: $34.95
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Effective AWK Programming Effective AWK Programming
by Arnold Robbins
Second Edition January 1900
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