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Re:Basic Command-Line Data Processing in Linux by j_baker on Monday August 30, 2010 @01:45AM (#1645502)
I just learned about another one a couple of days ago: cut. Can't believe I never knew of its existence.

Also, for programmers, I'd recommend ack over grep.

Re:Basic Command-Line Data Processing in Linux by tsmall on Monday August 30, 2010 @08:25AM (#1646006)
Thanks for the tip. I'd never heard of that one either. It seems like a simpler awk, or at least small subset of awk.