A key point to these tools (from a practical point ) is that they are very memory efficient and allow work on just a "line".

This project demonstrates Linux system setup, user configuration, directory management, text editing, and data analysis using command-line tools. It was completed in a VirtualBox lab environment and ...

I love chaining commands as much as anyone, and sed, awk, grep, and perl are some of my best friends. However, remember that, in *nix, each command runs in its own process, the resources required for ...

The awk command is a versatile text-processing tool in Linux. It filters and manipulates files using patterns, conditions, and actions. It supports a wide range of scenarios, making it straightforward ...

The first command we’ll examine in this post is a very unusual awk command that systematically removes every line in the file that is encountered more than once. It leaves the first instance of the ...

(See also [here] (https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+sort%3Aupdated-desc) for active issues.) With Miller, you get to use named fields ...