Text Processing
Process and manipulate text files with powerful Linux commands. Learn to search, sort, filter, and transform text data.

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Linux excels at processing text, with a rich set of commands designed to search, filter, sort, and transform text data. These tools are incredibly powerful for working with logs, data files, and configuration.

In this unit, you’ll learn Linux text processing commands. We’ll cover searching with grep, sorting and filtering data, transforming text with sed and awk, and combining these tools using pipes to create powerful processing pipelines.

Mastering text processing is one of the most valuable Linux skills, enabling you to quickly analyze logs, extract information from files, and automate text transformations that would take much longer by hand.

Lessons in this unit:

0: ▶︎ Introduction
1: grep - Search Text
2: find - Search Files
3: sort - Sort Lines
4: uniq - Remove Duplicates
5: diff - Compare Files
6: wc - Word Count
7: xargs - Build Command Lines