Command line text processing with GNU Coreutils
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Command line text processing with GNU Coreutils
“Command line text processing with GNU Coreutils” eBook
learnbyexample.github.io#gnu coreutils#command line text processing#shell tutorial#linux text tools
How HN took it
4 positive, 4 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 3 critical, out of 11 comments about the project. Thread score +0.05.
Idea: 3 for, 1 againstPricing: 1 for, 1 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 1 against
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Good resource and useful book
From 2 comments
>To celebrate the release, the ebook is free till Oct 15. You can get it from Gumroad or Leanpub: This book is not free before or after 15 October. Both sites linked require…
nobody9999 on HNGreat work-- I'm buying all your books with your $5 coupon link. HN folks often discuss ways to help open source, and ways to fund work that improves the open source ecosystem.…
jph on HN
comm and join are useful tools
From 2 comments
`comm` and `join` are like super powers to those who don't know about them :)
Xophmeister on HNfor me: comm[0]. It's super useful when you need it, but I've never seen it used by anyone else but me. [0]…
riffraff on HN
Objections
Book is not really free; signup links require personal data
From 2 comments
>To celebrate the release, the ebook is free till Oct 15. You can get it from Gumroad or Leanpub: This book is not free before or after 15 October. Both sites linked require…
nobody9999 on HN>That’s generally the definition of free, yes. You might have a different definition, but it’s certainly not a common one. Do you, given the environment of "surveillance…
nobody9999 on HN
Some coreutils commands are esoteric and less useful than awk or perl
From 1 comment
I wonder how many coreutils commands that really are "core". Certainly cat, head, tail and a few more. But some of the others feel really esoteric, and I don't know if knowing…
mongol on HN
Requests
Support for UPI payment
From 1 comment
Thank you for writing and making your books available. I just wish there was some way I could buy them with UPI.
chintler on HN
Questions
Whether awk is needed for text processing beyond coreutils
From 1 comment
Bookmarked, looks interesting. I'm curious if you ran into cases where limiting yourself to just coreutils made things odd. Text processing without awk, for me, would be hard.…
tyingq on HN
Which coreutils commands are esoteric
From 1 comment
Which ones do you think are esoteric?
jstanley on HN
Alternatives named
grep, sed, awk, perl and ruby one-liners
From 1 comment
Thanks. >I'm curious if you ran into cases where limiting yourself to just coreutils made things odd. I wasn't limiting myself here, text processing with Coreutils was just one…
asicsp on HN
join, paste and comm
From 2 comments
`comm` and `join` are like super powers to those who don't know about them :)
Xophmeister on HNAlso check out `paste`!
aaaaaaaaaaab on HN