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The Ultimate Linux Shell Scripting Guide
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The Ultimate Linux Shell Scripting Guide

by Donald A. Tevault
October 2024
Beginner to intermediate
698 pages
16h 7m
English
Packt Publishing
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7

Text Stream Filters – Part 2

In this chapter, we’ll continue our look at various text-stream filters. As you go through this chapter, I challenge you to use your imagination. Instead of thinking of these filter utilities as something you have to learn because I said so, or because you need to learn them for a Linux certification exam, try to imagine the ways in which each of these utilities can help you format your own text files and reports. Trust me, you’ll never know when one or more of these utilities could come in handy.

Here are the topics that we’ll cover in this chapter:

  • Using expand
  • Using unexpand
  • Using nl
  • Using head
  • Using tail
  • Using head and tail together
  • Using od
  • Using uniq
  • Using wc
  • Using fmt
  • Using split
  • Using tr
  • Using xargs
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