Chapter 8: Using the Command Line to Find, Extract, and Manipulate Text Content
Manipulating text is an everyday job for a full-time system administrator. It can happen for a variety of reasons – for example, you could just be trying to find a service option that you saw somewhere in some configuration file, without remembering what the name of the configuration file is. You know, those moments on Monday morning when you haven't had two cups of your favorite pick-me-up drink and your CPU hasn't booted properly yet? Or, maybe, when you're working with a text file that has a lot of content, but needs specific changes to be made, such as changing some configuration options from off to on, true to false, 0 to 1, and so on. This chapter is going to act as a prequel to one of the later chapters discussing shell scripting examples.
In this chapter, we are going to learn about the following:
- Using text commands to merge file content
- Converting DOS text...
