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Mac OS X for Unix Geeks
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Mac OS X for Unix Geeks

by Ernest E. Rothman, Brian Jepson
September 2002
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
216 pages
7h 43m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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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.

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