 | Level: Intermediate Tim McIntire (tm@timmcintire.net), Consultant, Freelance Writer
05 Dec 2006 Discover the power of UNIX® filters. In this tutorial, you'll learn about the grep family in depth, including the syntax of regular expressions in many UNIX utilities. You'll also find out more about the stream editor, sed, as well as examine the awk pattern scanning language through examples and explanations.
In this tutorial
- Regular expressions
- Searching files with grep
- Editing files with sed
- Using awk on the command line
Prerequisites
You need a basic understanding of the command line for this tutorial. For some parts of this tutorial, a working understanding of how input and output is handled in UNIX with stdin, stdout, and pipe is also helpful.
System requirements
Access to a user account on any computer running any UNIX-like operating system is all you need to complete this tutorial. UNIX-like operating systems include the IBM AIX® operating system, Linux, Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD), Mac OS® X (using Terminal to access the command line), and many others.
Duration
2 hours
Formats html, pdf
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