Linux Text Processing
Linux text processing commands — grep, sed, awk, sort, cut, tr, and more. Search, filter, transform, and format text content. This category documents 29 Linux text processing entries, and each page gives you the full syntax, the most useful options, a practical example you can paste into a terminal, and a difficulty rating. The entries are: grep, sed, awk, sort, uniq, wc, cut, tr, tee, paste, diff, jq, column, rev, comm, fold, fmt, nl, pr, expand, unexpand, od, hexdump, iconv, dos2unix, unix2dos, recodes, bc, seq. Not sure where to start? grep and sed are the most commonly used commands in this category. The text processing category is one of 15 categories in the Linux Reference, which covers 304+ commands and concepts in total. You can also search across every category from the search page, scan the cheat sheet, discover something new on the random command page, or read long-form tutorials on the blog.