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Command line Programs to manage text

; cat(1) : Con__cat__inate files to standard out
; sort(1) : a filter to sort text
; uniq(1) : a filter to remove duplicate lines from a file
; grep(1) : a filter to find regex(7)'s in files
; tr(1) : a filter to translate from one charactor set to another
; sed(1) : a simple script editor, mostly used for it's search and replace
; join(1) : a filter to join two files together based on a common column
; cut(1) : a filter to "cut" out different columns
; paste(1) : the reverse of cut
; head(1) : display the top of a file
; tail(1) : display the bottom of a file
; awk(1) : a simple scripting language for managing (mangling?) text files
; perl(1) : The swiss army knife of text processing
; python(1) : Yet another swiss army knife of text processing


Perhaps you were more interested in a TextEditor.

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Last edited on Friday, September 2, 2005 1:04:07 pm by AlastairPorter

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