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Linux, known for its powerful command-line interface, offers a variety of tools to facilitate text processing tasks. Among these tools, cut, sort, and uniq are invaluable for manipulating and analyzing text data. In this blog post, we’ll delve into how these tools can be used for advanced text processing, helping you to efficiently manage and interpret large volumes of data. Before diving into practical applications, let's briefly discuss what each of these tools does: cut: This command is used to remove or "cut out" sections from each line of files. It can be used to extract column-based data, such as the list of names or addresses from a CSV file.
sort: As the name suggests, sort arranges lines of text alphabetically or numerically.