Managing and Processing Text


Overview/Description
Target Audience
Prerequisites
Expected Duration
Lesson Objectives
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Overview/Description
search text files using regular expressions and make simple changes.

Target Audience
Students wishing to acquire the basic skills required as a Linux system administrator.

Prerequisites
General knowledge of computers and computer operating systems ideally encompassing Unix knowledge because of the similarity to Linux.

Expected Duration (hours)
2.7

Lesson Objectives

Managing and Processing Text

  • recognize how metacharacters are used in both filename generation and regular expressions.
  • search files using the grep command family.
  • select the sed commands that search through files and make simple changes.
  • search and edits files with grep and sed.
  • recognize the key functionality provided by Linux text-processing utilities.
  • select the Linux commands used to filter text.
  • select vi commands for editing text.
  • select the vi commands used to search and replace text.
  • select the vi commands to manipulate text.
  • Course Number:
    259930_eng