https://thetextsmith.com/tags/text-processing/ Recent content in Text-Processing on Under the Anvil Hugo -- 0.158.0 en-us Wed, 18 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://thetextsmith.com/trinity/grep-the-scout/ Wed, 18 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://thetextsmith.com/trinity/grep-the-scout/ Grep is the right tool when you want to find not only files, but even the contents of files in a directory. This post is going to explore finding by inversion. https://thetextsmith.com/trinity/sed-the-surgeon/ Wed, 18 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://thetextsmith.com/trinity/sed-the-surgeon/ Make your life simple by using sed, the stream editor, to make fast edits in one or more files https://thetextsmith.com/trinity/awk-the-architect/ Wed, 18 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://thetextsmith.com/trinity/awk-the-architect/ A file is treated as a set of records, and each line is split into fields. This is the whole idea of awk: seeing data as an organised set of entities.