Unix and Linux: Visual Quickstart Guide, Fifth Edition

6. Manipulating Files

In This Chapter

Counting Files and Their Contents with wc

Viewing File Beginnings with head

Viewing File Endings with tail

Finding Text with grep

Using Regular Expressions with grep

Using Other Examples of Regular Expressions

Making Global Changes with sed

Changing Files with awk

Comparing Files with cmp

Finding Differences in Files with diff

Finding Differences in Files with sdiff

Sorting Files with sort

Eliminating Duplicates with uniq

Redirecting to Multiple Locations with tee

Changing with tr

Formatting with fmt

Splitting Files with split

As you learned back in Chapter 4, you can easily work with text by opening an editor and making the changes you want. But you can do more than just copy, paste, cut, or move text ...