103.2 – Process text streams using filters

103.2 – Process text streams using filters

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Description

Candidates should should be able to apply filters to text streams.

Key Knowledge Areas

  • Send text files and output streams through text utility filters to modify the output using standard UNIX commands found in the GNU textutils package.

Files, Terms, and Utilities

  • bzcat

  • cat

  • cut

  • head

  • less

  • md5sum

  • nl

  • od

  • paste

  • sed

  • sha256sum

  • sha512sum

  • sort

  • split

  • tail

  • tr

  • uniq

  • wc

  • xzcat

  • zcat