Linux Tools for Text Processing

Many fields, such as data science, bioinformatics, and Linux systems administration, require the manipulation of textual data. Tasks include extracting fields or records meeting certain conditions from structured data (e.g., comma-separated files), combining content from multiple files, applying systematic changes to all lines of a document, sorting or randomizing data, and splitting larger files into smaller files. While these operations could be done by hand, they tend to be time-consuming, tedious and, worst of all, error prone. In this course we systematically explore the text processing…