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Some really cool command line utilities which increase your productivity.

There are a lot of command line utilities available in bash that can help you process millions of data in seconds. Some of them are

Head

Head is a command line utility to print first part of files given in standard input
head -1 data.txt - prints the first line of data.txt file

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Tail

Tail is a command line utility to print the last part of files given in standard input. ie It works just the opposite of head

tail -1 data.txt - prints the last line of data.txt file

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Cat

Cat is a command line utility for concatenating files and printing to standard output.

cat data.txt - prints the contents of data.txt file

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Grep

Grep is a is a command line utility for printing lines that match a pattern.

cat data.txt | grep "some-data" - Search for some-data in the data.txt file and print the lines which contains the text

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Shuf

Shuf is a command line utility which generates random permutations from input lines to standard output.

cat data.txt | shuf - Prints the content of data.txt shuffled

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Uniq

Uniq is a command line utility which can be used for filtering repeated lines in a file.

cat data.txt | uniq - Filtering repeated lines in data.txt file and prints it.

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Cut

Cut is a command line utility for cutting sections from each line of files and writing the result to standard output.

echo 'baz' | cut -b 2 - Prints a that is the secord character as specified in the cut.

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Join

Join is a command line utility for joining lines of two files on a common field.

join file1.txt file2.txt - Joins the data of 2 files based on some common field.

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Split

Split is a command line utility that can be used to split a file into pieces.

split -l 200 split_me.txt - Split split_me.txt to n files having 200 lines

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jq

jq is a command line utility used for processing JSON.

jq '.' data.json - Pretty prints data.json file

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awk

awk is a command line utility that searches for certain patterns and specified actions on that line.

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