This is just the start of your journey into text processing on the Linux command line. With practice, you can set up a distraction-free writing environment while employing powerful commands.

Linux’s command-line text-processing tools— awk, cut, and paste —are essential for anyone who works with large amounts of structured data. Whether you're extracting specific fields, performing ...

The Linux fold command enables you to break a string of characters into same-size chunks, but it can also be used to provide a series of characters or strings to drive a loop.

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The nano text editor has some really cool tricks up its sleeve. One that you probably weren’t aware of was the ability to execute commands and add the output of those commands into the file you ...