Text Editing and Processing
You can use the following tools to edit, convert, and otherwise manipulate text.
- awk
A pattern-matching language for textual database files.
- cut
A tool that selects columns for display.
- emacs
GNU Emacs.
- ex
A line editor underlying vi.
- fmt
A tool that produces roughly uniform line length.
- groff
A document formatting system that can render troff typesetting macros to PostScript, HTML, and other formats.
- join
A tool that merges different columns into a database.
- paste
A utility that merges columns or switches their order.
- pico
A simple text editor designed for use with the Pine mailer. Note that the version of pine that ships with Mac OS X is much older than the current release.
- sed
A stream editor.
- texi2html
A tool that converts Texinfo to HTML.
- tr
A command that substitutes or deletes characters.
- vi
A visual text editor.