[Eug-lug]quick commands with text

[Ben Huot]

select GNU textutils commands attached
These were the only ones I could find that would be useful for me as a writer.

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Ben Huot
Peasant-Scholar
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Text Utilites commands

on Linux, BSD and Cygwin

1. Prepare file for print
   • Number Lines
     • nl inputfile > outputfile
   • Fix spacing of words and sentences
     • fmt -u inputfile > outputfile
   • split file into 10 line files
     • split -l 10 inputfile > outputfile
   • Double space text and put header HEADER on top
     • pr -d -h HEADER inputfile > outputfile
2. Inspect files
   • see first 3 lines of files
     • head -n 3 inputfile > outputfile
   • word count
     • wc -w inputfile > outfputfile
   • compare two versions of similar file
     • sort file1 file2 | comm - - > outputfile
       • produces 3 columns
       • column 1 contains lines unique to file1
       • column 2 contains lines unique to file 2
       • column 3 contains lines common to both files
3. Specialty
   • convert from lowercase to uppercase letters
     • tr a-z A-Z inputfile > outputfile