Last updated 28.09.06

File manipulation utilities

UNIX provides you with several utilities for working with text files. These utilities can be combined with each other to provide more complex general purpose tools.

• Comparing file contents
• Finding a file
• Removing duplicate lines with uniq
• Searching the contents of a file
• Sorting the content of a file

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