Linux Administration/Commands/Filters

This lesson covers using filters.

Objectives and Skills edit

Objectives and skills for the filters portion of Linux+ certification include:[1]

  • Process text streams using filters
    • Send text files and output streams through text utility filters to modify the output using standard UNIX commands found in the GNU textutils package
    • The following is a partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
      • awk
      • cat
      • cut
      • expand
      • fmt
      • head
      • od
      • join
      • nl
      • paste
      • pr
      • sed (stream editor)
      • sort
      • split
      • tail
      • tr
      • unexpand
      • uniq
      • wc

Readings edit

  1. Wikipedia: Filter (software)

Multimedia edit

Activities edit

  1. Complete the tutorial IBM: Learn Linux, 101: Text streams and filters

Lesson Summary edit

Key Terms edit

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