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, ...

I just find the vi command style of Vim most comfortable for my fingers, but your experience might be different. Essential Linux Text Editing Tools: cut, sort, uniq, tr, and More ...

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

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.