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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
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<HTML
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>Text Information Tools</TITLE
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NAME="GENERATOR"
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CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK
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REL="HOME"
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TITLE="GNU/Linux Command-Line Tools Summary"
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REL="UP"
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TITLE="Text Related Tools"
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HREF="text-related-tools.html"><LINK
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REL="PREVIOUS"
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TITLE="Text Viewing Tools "
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REL="NEXT"
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TITLE="Text manipulation tools"
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>GNU/Linux Command-Line Tools Summary</TH
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WIDTH="10%"
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ALIGN="left"
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>Prev</A
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WIDTH="80%"
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>Chapter 11. Text Related Tools</TD
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><H1
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><A
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NAME="TEXT-INFORMATION-TOOLS"
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>11.3. Text Information Tools</H1
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><P
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><P
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CLASS="VARIABLELIST"
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><DL
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><DT
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>wc</DT
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><DD
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><P
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>Word count, count how many words you have in a text document. Can also be used to count the lines or bytes within the file. </P
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><P
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>Use the options<EM
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> -w </EM
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>for words, <EM
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>-l </EM
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>for lines and <EM
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>-c </EM
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>for bytes. Or simply run <EM
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>wc</EM
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> with no options to get all three.</P
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><P
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>Command syntax:</P
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BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0"
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COLOR="#000000"
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><PRE
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CLASS="SCREEN"
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>wc -option file.txt</PRE
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></FONT
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></TD
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></TABLE
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></DD
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><DT
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>style</DT
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><DD
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><P
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>To run various readability tests on a particular text file. Will output scores on a number of different readability tests (with no options).</P
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><P
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>Command syntax: </P
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COLOR="#000000"
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><PRE
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CLASS="SCREEN"
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>style -options text_file</PRE
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CLASS="NOTE"
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CLASS="NOTE"
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WIDTH="25"
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ALIGN="CENTER"
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VALIGN="TOP"
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SRC="../images/note.gif"
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HSPACE="5"
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ALT="Note"></TD
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ALIGN="LEFT"
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VALIGN="CENTER"
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><B
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>Find style in the diction package</B
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></TH
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><TR
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> </TD
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><TD
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ALIGN="LEFT"
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VALIGN="TOP"
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><P
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>This command is part of the diction package and does not appear to be used too often these days</P
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></TD
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></DD
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><DT
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>cmp</DT
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><DD
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><P
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>Determines whether or not two files differ, works on any type of file. Very similar to <EM
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>diff</EM
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> only it compares on the binary level instead of just the text.</P
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></DD
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><DT
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>diff</DT
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><DD
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>Compares two text files and output a difference report (sometimes called a "diff") containing the text that differs between two files. </P
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><P
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>Can be used to create a 'patch' file (which can be used by <EM
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>patch</EM
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>). </P
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><P
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>Example:</P
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COLOR="#000000"
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><PRE
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CLASS="SCREEN"
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>diff file1.txt file2.txt</PRE
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></FONT
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><P
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><EM
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>diff</EM
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> will output a '>' (followed by the line) for each line that isn't in the first file but is in the second file, and it will output a '<' (followed by the line) for each line that is in the first file but not in the second file.</P
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></DD
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><DT
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>sdiff</DT
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><DD
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><P
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>Instead of giving a difference report, it outputs the files in two columns, side by side, separated by spaces.</P
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></DD
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><DT
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>diff3</DT
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><DD
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><P
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>Same as <EM
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>diff</EM
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> except for three files.</P
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></DD
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><DT
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></DT
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><DD
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><P
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><EFBFBD></P
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></DD
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><DT
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>comm</DT
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><DD
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><P
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>Compares two files, line-by-line and prints lines that are unique to file1 (1st column), unique to file2 (2nd column) and common to both files (3rd column). </P
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><P
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>Use <EM
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>comm</EM
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> with the -1, -2, or -3 to suppress the printing of those particular lines. Simply run <EM
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>comm</EM
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> to have all three listed (ie. unique to files 1 and 2 and common to both).</P
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><P
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>Command syntax:</P
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>comm file1 file2</PRE
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></DD
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><DT
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>look</DT
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><DD
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><P
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>To output a list of words in the system dictionary that begin with a given string -- this is useful for finding words that begin with a particular phrase or prefix. </P
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><P
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>Give the string as an argument; it is not case sensitive. </P
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><P
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>Command syntax:</P
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>look string</PRE
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