Text viewing and processing tools
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- awk - A utility and scripting language
- cat - Con-cat-enate file(s) to stdout
- cut - Extract portions of lines
- diff - Compare differences of files
- ed - The editor. ED!
- egrep - See grep
- fgrep - See grep
- grep - Global/regular expression/print (print lines matching an expression)
- head - View the top of a file
- less - A more powerful pager
- more - A less powerful pager
- nl - Number lines of files
- sed - Stream editor (non-interactive programmatic editor)
- sort - Sort input
- tac - Cat lines in reverse
- rev - Cat characters in reverse
- tail - View the bottom of a file
- tr - Transform/transliterate text
- uniq - Manipulate duplicate lines of a sorted file
Text processors in file utils' clothing