Linux provides a lot of handy commands for manipulating text files. This post explains how to use a collection of them.

With a modest string of commands, you can get a quick look at what commands you're using on your Linux system and how often.

Fortunately, Linux has a great equivalent command: sort. Like cut and awk, you can specify a delimiter and field by number, although the flags use different letters.

GUIs are great—we wouldn’t want to live without them. But if you’re a Mac or Linux user and you want to get the most out of your operating system (and your keystrokes), you owe it to yourself to get ...