Getting Started with Linux Basics--06

Simple Text Processing

Experiment Introduction

In this section we will introduce these commands: TR, col, join, paste

1.tr:

-D: Delete and Set1 match characters, not whole word match or match in character order

-S: Removes the specified consecutive and repeated characters

2.col:

Turn the TAB key to an equal number of spaces, or reverse the operation.

-X: Convert tab to space

-H: Turn a space into tab

3.join:

Merge the same line that contains the same content in two files

-T: Specifies the delimiter, the default is a space

-I: Ignore case differences

-1: Indicate which field to use for the first file to compare

-2: Indicate which field to use for the first file to compare

4.paste:

Merge files without comparison

Getting Started with Linux Basics--06