Unix Commands for Text File Manipulation

The following commands will make your text file manipulation a bit more comfortable.

Showing the contents of text files

• cat – concatenate files and print to standard output or file
• less
• more
• wc
• grep

Comparing text files

• diff
• sdiff

Text input/output manipulations

• sort
• cut
• tr
• sed

See also

• unix text editors
• Unix Commands
• Basic Unix Commands
• Advanced Unix Commands