content/cli/12 Useful Commands For Filtering Text.md

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Title: 12 Useful Commands For Filtering Text Date: 2017-01-09 17:11:00 Categories: [cli] tags: [awk, sed, grep, head, tail, sort, uniq, fmt, pr, tr, more, less]

Authors: sedlav

In this article, we will review a number of command line tools that act as filters in Linux. A filter is a program that reads standard input, performs an operation upon it and writes the results to standard output.

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