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GNU/Linux Command-Line Tools Summary - Text manipulation tools

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and awk are traditional UNIX system tools for working with text, this guide does not provide an explanation of them. sed works on a line-by-line basis performing substitution and awk can perform a similar task or assist by working on a file and printing out certain information (its a programming language).

You will normally find them installed on your GNU/Linux system and will find many tutorials all over the internet, feel free to look them up if you ever have to perform many similar operations on a text file.

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This information has been taken from the Linux Cookbook (without editing). See [3] in the Prev for further information.


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