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The Bash Brothers sed and awk

Jason Charney edited this page Feb 25, 2015 · 1 revision

TODO: This page is a work in progress.

Why the awesome name for this article? Some of the best Bash scripts I've ever composed used a lot of sed and awk commands. Just as working with [curl and tar](Download using curl and tar) can be a powerful combination, using sed and awk with curl and/or bash can be a reckoning force!

Textbending

The proper term for what sed and awk do is text manipulation, but just for fun on this wiki, we'll call this skillful control of text by a different name: textbending. In the filed of computer science, textbending is done using regular expression, or regex

See Also

  • [Textbending with Regular Expression](Textbending with Regular Expression)
  • [Searching using grep and find](grep and find)
  • [Download using curl and tar](Download using curl and tar)

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