Unix and Linux: Visual Quickstart Guide, Fifth Edition

16. Sensational Unix Tricks

In This Chapter

Cleaning Up HTML Documents with tidy

Searching and Replacing Throughout Multiple Documents with sed

Generating Reports with awk

Using Input to Customize Your Environment

Using ROT13 Encoding with sed

Embedding ROT13 Encoding in a Shell Script

Making Backups with rsync

Using Advanced Redirection with stderr

Throughout this book, we’ve given you Unix building blocks—individual Unix commands, scripting techniques, and other insights that you can use individually or combine. In this chapter, we’ll show you some clever things to do with Unix. You might consider this an “advanced” chapter, but most of the things we’ll show you here are simply combinations of things you’ve already learned about in earlier ...