Manipulating data Commands in Unix

The contents of files can be compared and altered with the following commands.

Command	Description
awk	Pattern scanning and processing language
cmp	Compare the contents of two files
comm	Compare sorted data
cut	Cut out selected fields of each line of a file
diff	Differential file comparator
expand	Expand tabs to spaces
join	Join files on some common field
perl	Data manipulation language
sed	Stream text editor
sort	Sort file data
split	Split file into smaller files
tr	Translate characters
uniq	Report repeated lines in a file
wc	Count words, lines, and characters
vi	Opens vi text editor
vim	Opens vim text editor
fmt	Simple text formatter
spell	Check text for spelling error
ispell	Check text for spelling error
ispell	Check text for spelling error
emacs	GNU project Emacs
ex, edit	Line editor
emacs	GNU project Emacs
emacs	GNU project Emacs