Unix and Linux: Visual QuickStart Guide, Fourth Edition

Chapter 6. Manipulating Files

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• Counting files and file contents

• Viewing file beginnings

• Viewing file endings

• Finding text

• Using regular expressions

• Making global changes

• Changing files

• Comparing files

• Finding differences in files

• Sorting files

• Eliminating duplicates

• Redirecting files to two locations

• Changing case

• Formatting files

• Splitting files

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As you learned back in Chapter 4, you can fairly easily work with text by opening up an editor and making the changes you want. But you can do more than just copy, paste, cut, or move text in files. As we’ll discuss in this chapter, you can manipulate entire files and look at specific parts of them, get information about the files, find text in files, compare files, ...