Hour 9. Slicing and Dicing Command-Pipe Data

Goals for This Hour

In this hour, you will learn

Image About the awk programming system

Image How to use cut in pipes

Image About using sed and tr for in-line transformations

By this point, you’ve learned enough about Unix to be able to build quite sophisticated command-line pipes, sequences of standard commands that offer flexibility and power. You need to add a couple of key tools to your toolkit to keep moving forward, ...

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