Linux Administration/Commands/Filters

This lesson covers using filters.

Objectives and Skills
Objectives and skills for the filters portion of Linux+ certification include:
 * Process text streams using filters
 * Send text files and output streams through text utility filters to modify the output using standard UNIX commands found in the GNU textutils package
 * The following is a partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
 * awk
 * cat
 * cut
 * expand
 * fmt
 * head
 * od
 * join
 * nl
 * paste
 * pr
 * sed (stream editor)
 * sort
 * split
 * tail
 * tr
 * unexpand
 * uniq
 * wc

Readings

 * 1)  Filter (software)

Activities

 * 1) Complete the tutorial IBM: Learn Linux, 101: Text streams and filters