Linux Tools for Text and Data Manipulation (Online Seminar)

Perhaps the feature that most distinguishes Linux (and other UNIX) systems is the wealth of commands or utilities, each of which is really a special-purpose application for performing a particular kind of data processing task. This seminar teaches the use of Linux's most popular utilities for data processing, including grep, sort, sed, awk, cut, and tr, as well as additional capabilities of the find command for file system searching.

After completing this seminar, you should be able to:

Use the grep, fgrep, and egrep commands to identify patterns of text in input

Use regular expression notation for more powerful specification of text patterns

Use the sed stream editor for in-line editing

Use the awk pattern scanning and reporting language for record processing

Use the cut, tr, and paste commands for text and data processing

Use the cmp command for comparing files

Use the sort command

Perform additional searches and actions using the find command

Chip's involvement with IT began with an Altos 8600 "super-microcomputer" running Microsoft Xenix. Since then, he has worked on, managed, and taught on UNIX-based systems including AT&T, IBM's AIX, Sun's SunOS and Solaris, HP-UX, Linux, SCO Xenix and UNIX, Gould, Pyramid, and probably some others. He has been involved in developing and delivering UNIX/Linux education on-and-off for 25 years.