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Change the nature and content of text files

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Removes characters and fields from lines of text in a text stream   cut  
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cut Options: cuts characters   cut -c  
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cut Options: cuts fields   cut -f  
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cut Options: delimiter   cut -d  
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cut Options: remove lines that do not have a field delimiter   cut -s  
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cut Options: Select only bytes   cut -b  
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Replace TABS with Spaces   expand  
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Specify the number of spaces for expand (with no option, default is 8 spaces)   expand -t (number)  
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Change SPACES into a tab   unexpand  
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unexpand Option: Change all occurrences – without –a command changes only leading spaces   unexpand -a  
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unexpand Option: Specify number of spaces to be changed (default is 8)   unexpand -t (number)  
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Format lines in file or text stream to a uniform length (default is 75)   fmt  
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fmt option: Specifies number of characters for the width   fmt -w (number)  
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fmt Option: Prevent formatting lines shorter than the specified length   fmt -s  
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Combines text form 2 files based on IDENTICAL fields - by default fields offset by whitespace   join  
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join Options: Ignore case when searching for identical text   join -i  
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join Options: Specifies number of field to use when joining   join -j  
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join Options: Number of the field from the 1st listed file to use when joining   join -1  
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join Options: Number of the field from the 2nd listed file to use when joining   join -2  
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join Options: Character used as delimiter   join -t  
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join Example: Using the 2nd field of each file as join field (o/p from sort piped to join)   sort –n text1 | join-1 2 -2 2 text5  
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Places a line number in front of each line in text file   nl  
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nl Options: Specifies the increment to use in numbering   nl -i  
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nl Options: Starting number   nl -v  
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nl Options: Specifies the text to place between number and the line- default is 2 spaces   nl -s  
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Displays the contents of any file in octal, decimal, hexadecimal, or character format   od  
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od Option: Radix of the file offset o = octal, d = decimal, x = hexadecimal and n = no offset   od -A (Example: od –A d –t c text2b)  
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od Option: Controls the form of the display   od -t  
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od Option: Character dump   od -c  
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Adds contents of one file to the contents of another on a LINE BY LINE basis   paste  
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paste Option: Specifies the character to be placed between the conjoined lines on each file (single character only)   paste -d  
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paste Example; place a @ symbol between each line of file1 and file2   paste –d @ file1 file2  
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Formats a text file for printing   pr  
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pr Options:Double space lines   pr -d  
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pr Options: Specifies text to replace file name (default) in header   pr -h  
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pr Options: Specify number of lines per page (default = 66)   pr -l  
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pr Options: Have no header or footer   pr -t  
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pr Options: Omit file name (blank)   pr -m  
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pr Options: Create a left-hand margin   pr -o  
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pr Example: Create a left hand margin of 4 spaes   pr –o 4  
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Sorts each line in a file or text stream alphabetically   sort  
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sort Options: Ignore blank leading spaces   sort -b  
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sort Options: use 1st alpha-numeric character and ignore special characters   sort -d  
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sort Options: Ignore case   sort -f  
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sort Options: Sort by month   sort -M  
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sort Options: Sort by numeric value   sort -n  
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sort Options: sort in reverse order   sort -r  
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Split lines of text form file or text stream into segments of specified number of lines   split  
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split Options: Specify number of lines per file   split -1 or -number  
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split Options: Splits into specified byte size instead of lines   split -b  
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split Options: Use numeric suffixes rather than alphabetic for file names   split -d  
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split Options: Specifies number of characters in the suffix   split -a  
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split Example: Splits the AllNames file into individual files containing 50 lines = FiftyNames-001, FiftyNames002 etc.   split -50 –d –a 3 AllNames FiftyNames  
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Filters identical lines form a file – lines must be adjacent (use sort)   uniq  
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uniq Options: Print duplicate lines only   uinq -d  
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uniq Options: Specifies number of initial words to skip (words delimited by white-space)   unig -f  
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uniq Options: Specify the number of initial characters to skip   uniq -s  
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uniq Options: Specifies number of characters to compare   unig -w  
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uniq Options: Leave out duplicate lines   uniq -u  
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Prints number of lines, words, and bytes from text in file or text stream   wc  
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wc Options: Print BYTES   wc -c  
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wc Options: print CHARACTERS = identical to bytes   wc -m  
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wc Options: Print LINES   wc -l  
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wc Options: Specifies length of longest line   wc -L  
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wc Options: Print WORD COUNT   wc -w  
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Transposes characters in a text stream (only works with character streams)- has 2 character sets - 1st set specifies characters to be changed 2nd set specifies how they should be changed - usually text stream derived from cat command (piped to command)   tr  
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tr Options: Change all characters except those specified in 1st set   tr -c  
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tr Options: Deletes characters found in 1st set   tr -d  
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tr Options: Changes double-characters to single ones   tr -s  
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tr Options: Truncate (shorten) the 1st set of characters to match size of 2nd set   tr -t  
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Create reports based in data retrieved from files, build databases, or perform mathematical operations against numbers in text files   awk  
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awk Options: Specifies file   awk -f  
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awk Options: Specify DELIMITER to be used   awk -F  
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awk Options: Used to designate FIELDS   $#  
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awk Options: Used to insert a TAB   \t  
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awk Options: Used to insert a NEW LINE   \n  
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awk Options: Used to insert a form-feed character   \f  
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awk Options: Used to insert a CARRIAGE RETURN   \r  
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