 | Level: Introductory David Mertz (mertz@gnosis.cx), Developer, Gnosis Software
09 Mar 2004 This tutorial shows you how to use the GNU text utilities collection to process log files, documentation, structured text databases, and other textual sources of data or content. The utilities in this collection have proven their usefulness over decades of refinement by UNIX/Linux developers, and should be your first go-to choice for general text processing tasks. This tutorial is written for Linux/UNIX programmers and system administrators, at a beginning to intermediate level.
Prerequisites
For this tutorial, you should be generally familiar with some UNIX-like environment, and especially with a command-line shell. You need not be a programmer. In fact, the techniques described will be most useful to system administrators and users who process ad hoc reports, log files, project documentation, and the like (and less so for formal programming code processing). While working through this tutorial, it is a good idea to keep a shell open and try the examples shown as well as variants on them.
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Duration
Under two hours
Formats html, pdf
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