Use if you need help, have suggestions, etc

Command Line Text Processing

Work still in progress, stay tuned :)

Chapters

• Cat, Less, Tail and Head
  • cat, less, tail, head, Text Editors
• GNU grep
• GNU sed
• GNU awk
• Sorting stuff
  • sort, uniq, comm, shuf
• Restructure text
  • paste, column, pr, fold
• File attributes
  • wc, du, df, touch, file
• Miscellaneous 
  • cut, tr, basename, dirname, xargs, seq

Rough drafts

• Wheres my file
• Whats the difference
• Perl the swiss knife

Possible additions

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

Webinar recordings

Am new to video recording and there are few bumps. But I hope it would be helpful

• Using the sort command
• Using uniq and comm

exercises

Check out exercises directory to test yourself, right from the command line itself

As of now, only a few grep exercises has been added. Stay tuned for more

ebook

Includes only completed chapters

• Read as ebook on gitbook
• Download ebook for offline reading - link

Acknowledgements

• unix.stackexchange and stackoverflow - for getting answers to pertinent questions as well as sharpening skills by understanding and answering questions
• Forums like Linux users, /r/commandline/, /r/linux/, news.ycombinator, devup and others for valuable feedback (especially spotting mistakes) and encouragement
• See wikipedia entry 'Roses Are Red' for poem.txt used as sample text input file

License

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