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6 Text Filtering Uses for the Linux awk Command

The awk command is a versatile text-processing tool in Linux. It filters and manipulates files using patterns, conditions, ...
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Removing duplicate characters from a string on Linux with awk

The awk command can make it easy to remove duplicate characters from a string even when those characters aren’t sequential, especially when the process is turned into a script. First, the awk command ...
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Linux/BSD Command Line 101: Using awk, sed, and grep in the Terminal

I love chaining commands as much as anyone, and sed, awk, grep, and perl are some of my best friends. However, remember that, in *nix, each command runs in its own process, the resources required for ...
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Turn tabs into spaces on Linux and vice versa

The Linux expand and unexpand commands can turn tabs into spaces and spaces into tabs, and the sed and awk commands can help. The Linux expand and unexpand commands sound like they can make files ...
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Linux/BSD Command Line 101: Using awk, sed, and grep in the Terminal

Ooooh, great article to wake up to. I find the following alias commands, which I set system wide in /etc/profile.d/custom.sh, on my primary file server and anything ...