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The Beauty of Unix Pipelines (2020)
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Hints for Writing Unix Tools (2014)
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Recreated sources for the book “UNIX Text Processing,” published in 1987
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Practical Shell Patterns I Use
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An Opinionated Guide to Xargs
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Perl One-Liners Cookbook
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How to Clean Text Data at the Command Line
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The Beauty of Unix Pipelines
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So you want to write your own CSV code (2014)
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Text Processing in the Shell
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Illustrated Jq Tutorial
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Was Knuth Really Framed?
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An introduction to data processing on the Linux command line
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Unix for Poets (2013) [pdf]
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Your terminal is not a terminal: An Introduction to Streams
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The hard part in becoming a command line wizard
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What you need may be “pipeline +Unix commands” only
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A proof that Unix utility sed is Turing complete
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For the Love of Pipes
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More than you really wanted to know about Patch
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The Source History of Cat
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Show HN: Pact, a simple utility that kills all procs given to it if one dies
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Sed – An Introduction and Tutorial
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Hints for writing Unix tools
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Pipes and Filters
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So You Want to Write Your Own CSV code
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Rob Pike: "Current Unix tools are weakened by the built-in concept of a line"
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Handbook of Text manipulation on Unix
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Useful use of cat(1)
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Knuth and the Unix Way
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Introduction to sed
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The Origin of Unix Pipes
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Useful Uses of cat
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Pipexec – Handling pipe of commands like a single command
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Common I/O Tasks in Modern Java
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