https://github.com/learnbyexample/Command-line-text-processing

From finding text to search and replace, from sorting to beautifying text and more

Use if you need help, have suggestions, etc

Command Line Text Processing

Work still in progress, stay tuned :)

Chapters

• Cat, Less, Tail and Head
  • cat, less, tail, head, Text Editors
• GNU grep
• GNU sed
• GNU awk
• Sorting stuff
  • sort, uniq, comm, shuf
• Restructure text
  • paste, column, pr, fold
• File attributes
  • wc, du, df, touch, file
• Miscellaneous 
  • cut, tr, basename, dirname, xargs, seq

Rough drafts

• Wheres my file
• Whats the difference
• Perl the swiss knife

Possible additions

• Parsers for html, xml, json, etc
• Renaming files
• other than coreutils like combine, datamash, etc

Webinar recordings

Am new to video recording and there are few bumps. But I hope it would be helpful

• Using the sort command
• Using uniq and comm

exercises

Check out exercises directory to test yourself, right from the command line itself

As of now, only a few grep exercises has been added. Stay tuned for more

ebook

Includes only completed chapters

• Read as ebook on gitbook
• Download ebook for offline reading - link

Acknowledgements

• unix.stackexchange and stackoverflow - for getting answers to pertinent questions as well as sharpening skills by understanding and answering questions
• Forums like Linux users, /r/commandline/, /r/linux/, devup and others for valuable feedback (especially spotting mistakes) and encouragement

License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License