Linux Administration/Commands/Filters

This lesson covers using filters.

Objectives and Skills

Objectives and skills for the filters portion of Linux+ certification include:

• Process text streams using filters
  • Send text files and output streams through text utility filters to modify the output using standard UNIX commands found in the GNU textutils package
  • The following is a partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
    • awk
    • cat
    • cut
    • expand
    • fmt
    • head
    • od
    • join
    • nl
    • paste
    • pr
    • sed (stream editor)
    • sort
    • split
    • tail
    • tr
    • unexpand
    • uniq
    • wc

Readings

1. Wikipedia: Filter (software)

Activities

1. Complete the tutorial IBM: Learn Linux, 101: Text streams and filters

References

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