Conclusion Linux’s command-line text-processing tools— awk, cut, and paste —are essential for anyone who works with large amounts of structured data. Whether you're extracting specific fields, ...

Fortunately, Linux has a great equivalent command: sort. Like cut and awk, you can specify a delimiter and field by number, although the flags use different letters.

The awk, cut, grep, expr, sed and xargs commands provide many useful options for manipulating text.