Preface: Data Cleaning Pocket Primer -- About the Technical Reviewer -- Chaper 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Useful Commands -- Chapter 3. Filtering Data with grep -- Chapter 4. Transforming Data with sed -- Chapter 5. Doing Everything Else with awk -- Appendix: Other Code Samples -- Index.
Summary
"This book is an effort to give programmers sufficient knowledge of data cleaning to be able to work on their own projects. It is designed as a practical introduction to using flexible, powerful (and free) Unix/Linux shell commands to perform common data cleaning tasks. The book is packed with realistic examples and numerous commands that illustrate both the syntax and how the commands work together. Companion files with source code are available for downloading from the publisher."-- Page 4 of cover.
