Processing text files with CLI tools

Any *NIX-based system offers a rich toolset to deal with text files. Some of these tools are more than 30 years old and provide impressive functionality and speed. In the age of cloud computing craze, it is good to know that most day-to-day text handling tasks are best done locally with these commands. This talk gives an overview of tools like grep/sed/awk/sort/uniq and the techniques for solving common tasks such as filtering, counting, finding text, unions and intersections.

Delivered as an internal training

Audience: developers SAs devops