Unix and Linux: Visual QuickStart Guide, Fourth Edition

Chapter 16. Sensational Unix Tricks

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• Cleaning up HTML documents

• Searching and replacing throughout multiple documents

• Generating reports

• Using input to customize your environment

• Using ROT13 encoding

• Embedding ROT13 encoding in shell scripts

• Making backups

• Using advanced redirection

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Throughout this book, we’ve given you Unix building blocks—individual Unix commands, scripting techniques, and other insights that you can use individually or combine. In this chapter, we’ll show you some clever things to do with Unix. You might consider this an “advanced” chapter, but most of the things we’ll show you here are simply combinations of things you’ve already learned about in earlier chapters.

Cleaning Up HTML ...