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CHAPTER 7 Text Processing

7.2 Text Processing Commands


Text Processing Commands
Command/SyntaxWhat it will do
awk/nawk [options] filescan for patterns in a file and process the results
grep/egrep/fgrep [options] 'search string' filesearch the argument (in this case probably a file) for all occurrences of the search string, and list them.
sed [options] filestream editor for editing files from a script or from the command line

7.2.1 - grep
7.2.2 - sed
7.2.3 - awk, nawk, gawk

Introduction to Unix - 14 AUG 1996
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