Linux has some great command line tools. These ones excel at text manipulation.
awk | Perform functions on text arranged in fields |
cut | Extract specific columns from lines of text |
diff | Perform a line by line comparison of two text files |
expand | Convert tab stops to spaces |
expr | Extract part of a string from another string. |
fmt | A simple paragraph formatter |
grep | Extract lines of text from a file containing a certain text string. |
head | Display the first n lines from a file |
lex | Perform lexical analysis of a text stream |
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paste | Convert a single text column into multiple columns |
roff | Text formatter |
sed | Non interactive text line editor |
sort | |
tail | |
test | Compare two strings for equality |
tr | Replace selected characters in a file |
wc | Count the number of lines, words, or characters in a file. |
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