Linux commands, from your first prompt onward.
In-depth, beginner-friendly guides to the Linux command line — with syntax, options, worked examples, and practical tips for every command.
In-depth, beginner-friendly guides to the Linux command line — with syntax, options, worked examples, and practical tips for every command.
Pattern-scanning and text-processing language for field-based data
text-processingscriptingfieldsCompare two files byte by byte
text-processingcomparisonfilesExtract columns or fields from each line of input
text-processingfieldscolumnsCompare files line by line and show differences
text-processingcomparisonpatchConvert tabs in input to spaces
text-processingwhitespaceformattingSearch text using patterns
searchregextext-processingJoin lines of two sorted files on a common field
text-processingjoinfieldsDisplay lines in a sorted file starting with a given string
text-processingsearchlegacyMerge corresponding lines of files side by side into columns
text-processingcolumnsfilesStream editor for filtering and transforming text
text-processingregexeditingSort lines of text files
text-processingsortingfieldsSplit a file into smaller pieces
text-processingfileschunkingTranslate, squeeze, or delete characters from input
text-processingcharactersstdinConvert runs of spaces back into tabs
text-processingwhitespaceformattingReport or filter out repeated adjacent lines
text-processingdeduplicationsortingCount lines, words, and bytes or characters
text-processingcountingfiles