Command Line Text Processing

Learn about various commands available for common and exotic text processing needs. Examples have been tested on GNU/Linux - there'd be syntax/feature variations with other distributions, consult their respective man pages for details.

⚠️ 🚧 Work in progress, stay tuned...

Chapters

• Cat, Less, Tail and Head
  • cat, less, tail, head, Text Editors
• GNU grep
• GNU sed
• GNU awk
• Perl the swiss knife
• Ruby one liners
• Sorting stuff
  • sort, uniq, comm, shuf
• Restructure text
  • paste, column, pr, fold
• Whats the difference
  • cmp, diff
• File attributes
  • wc, du, df, touch, file
• Miscellaneous
  • cut, tr, basename, dirname, xargs, seq

Rough drafts

• Wheres my file

Possible additions - seems like these won't be coming any time soon :(

• Parsers for html, xml, csv, json, etc
• Renaming files
• other commands like split, combine, datamash, etc

Contributing

• Please open an issue for typos/bugs/suggestions/etc
  • Even for pull requests, open an issue for discussion…