Useful Linux text utilities

A list of the most useful GNU coreutil tools, and other text utilities that are handy in hacking

• cat

• csplit / split

• cut

• head

• tail

• join

• nl

• od

• fmt

• paste

• sort

• uniq

• comm

• tr

• pr

• uniq

• wc

• seq

• tee

• grep

• yes

• awk

• sed

• jq

• base64

• shuf

• more / less

• column

• replace