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Command Line Text Utilities

Shell scripts can be hard to understand sometimes, especially one-liners. They include a lot of commands which are not essential to the task at hand. It all gets easier to grasp once you know that in unix shells everything is text.

In this talk I give a quick overview of the most popular commands which operate on text, such as grep, cut, awk, xargs, pbcopy, pbpaste.

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