1. Cover
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  3. Preface
  4. 1. Introduction
  5. 2. cat and tac
  6. 3. head and tail
  7. 4. tr
  8. 5. cut
  9. 6. seq
  10. 7. shuf
  11. 8. paste
  12. 9. pr
  13. 10. fold and fmt
  14. 11. sort
  15. 12. uniq
  16. 13. comm
  17. 14. join
  18. 15. nl
  19. 16. wc
  20. 17. split
  21. 18. csplit
  22. 19. expand and unexpand
  23. 20. basename and dirname
  24. What next?
  25. Exercise solutions


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CLI text processing with GNU Coreutils

    What next?

    Hope you've found this book interesting and useful.

    There are plenty of general purpose and specialized text processing tools. Here's a list of books I've written:

    • CLI text processing with GNU grep and ripgrep
    • CLI text processing with GNU sed
    • CLI text processing with GNU awk
    • Ruby One-Liners Guide
    • Perl One-Liners Guide
    • Command line text processing with Rust tools

    See also my curated list of resources on Linux CLI and Shell scripting.