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Command line

*nix-ly basics:

• cut, tr, wc, grep,
• awk, sed
• but also things like recode

...see e.g. [1]

There are various interesting tricks you can do with grep, awk, and sed. For example:

• http://stts.se/egrep_for_linguists/

Variants on grep: (see also [2])

• sgrep (structured grep) interprets HTML and similar structures and has a GCL-like query syntax(verify)

• agrep (approximate grep) returns things that differ up to a certain amount of characters

Ideas

• finite state automata fore string recognition, simple string translation

Unsorted

Command line:

• cgrep (context grep)
• http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=962225&dl=GUIDE&coll=GUIDE
• http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~tcl/kbre/options/

See also

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grep