Chapter 6. Manipulating Files
Chapter contents
Counting files and file contents
Viewing file beginnings
Viewing file endings
Finding text
Using regular expressions
Making global changes
Changing files
Comparing files
Finding differences in files (two methods)
Sorting files
Redirecting files to two locations
As you learned back in Chapter 4, you can fairly easily work with text by opening up an editor and making the changes you want. But you can do more than just copy, paste, cut, or move text in files. As we'll discuss in this chapter, you can manipulate entire files and look at specific parts of them, get information about the files, find text in files, compare files, and sort files. All kinds of neat stuff!
In this chapter, we'll use a lot of flags ...
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