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Introducing UNIX and Linux


Overview
Using filters
      Collating sequence
      Character classes
Character-to-character transformation
Selecting lines by content
      Regular expressions
      Basic regular expressions
      Extended regular expressions
      Grep
Stream editor
      Sed addresses
Splitting a file according to context
Choosing between the three filters
More on Vi
Summary
Exercises

Summary

The following commands were introduced in this chapter

csplit split a file according to context
grep select lines matching regular expression
sed stream editor
tr translate characters

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