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Useful Terminal Commands for work with data

18/10/2013 Ola Løvholm Comments 0 Comment

Please, see my terminal-tools tag for more articles on nifty terminal tools. Enclose values in quotes, and add comma Say you work with a large datafile where you get all values printed on consecutive lines, and you want to copy these lines into an array, list or other data structure where strings need to be quoted, and values needs to be separated by commas. Here is a sed script that may help you with that task. sed ‘s/\(.*\)/”\1″,/g’ all_uuid.csv >…

Three Useful Terminal Commands

30/07/2013 Ola Løvholm Comments 0 Comment

See my terminal-tools tag for more articles on nifty terminal tools. The *nix terminal is a great tool. In everyday life this is where a lot of things can be done easy and fast with this power tool. There are an abundance of tools and ways of solving problems with the terminal, but here you have three practical applications. Find a text string within current folder grep your_magic_string -H -R * The command ‘grep’ is used as a search tool for plain…