Ars Technica

Linux/BSD Command Line 101: Using awk, sed, and grep in the Terminal

I love chaining commands as much as anyone, and sed, awk, grep, and perl are some of my best friends. However, remember that, in *nix, each command runs in its own process, the resources required for ...
Network World

Removing duplicate characters from a string on Linux with awk

The awk command can make it easy to remove duplicate characters from a string even when those characters aren’t sequential, especially when the process is turned into a script. First, the awk command ...
Network World

Turn tabs into spaces on Linux and vice versa

The Linux expand and unexpand commands can turn tabs into spaces and spaces into tabs, and the sed and awk commands can help. The Linux expand and unexpand commands sound like they can make files ...
Ars Technica

Linux/BSD Command Line 101: Using awk, sed, and grep in the Terminal

Can a curious Windows user find a Linux version without command lines, because I can’t find one that has 100% GUI. Is it because of techno snobbery, as in, you’re only allowed in if you learn command ...