sed & awk By Dale Dougherty
January 1900
Pages: 414

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Our look is the result of reader comments, our own experimentation, and feedback from distribution channels. Distinctive covers complement our distinctive approach to technical topics, breathing personality and life into potentially dry subjects. The animal featured on the cover of sed & awk is a slender loris. Lorises are nocturnal, tree-dwelling, tailless primates with thick, soft fur and large round eyes. They are found in India and Sri Lanka where they live in the trees, rarely descending to the ground. Lorises have been observed urinating on their hands and feet--it is thought that they do this to improve their grip while climbing or to leave a scent trail. A small animal, the slender loris is generally between 7 and 10 inches in size and weighs 12 ounces or less. It subsists on a diet of fruit, leaves and shoots, and small animals which it captures by hand. UNIX and its attendant programs can be unruly beasts. Nutshell Handbooks(R) help you tame them.

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Edie Freedman designed this cover and the entire UNIX bestiary that appears on other Nutshell Handbooks. The beasts themselves are adapted from 19th-century engravings from the Dover Pictorial Archive.

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