Mentioned tools: 1:34 grep 2:17 grep -v 2:52 grep -A [number] 3:15 grep -B [number] 3:31 grep -C [number] 3:43 grep -Irl [number] 6:49 sed 8:40 sed -i 8:59 sed -n 10:45 awk 12:59 awk -F

Thanks for the 68 likes in 13 days 😀- And for the heart... which I lost after editing this comment 😞 grep..... 1:34 sed...... 6:48 awk... 10:42

I'm pretty good with grep, but not so much with sed and awk. Thank you for this video. It was incredibly helpful.

I'm just a minute into this. My dad had one of those O'reilly books solely on awk and sed back in the day!

Time invested in learning sed will help you in vim, and vice versa. Time invested in learning regexps - the search pattern notation - will help you in grep, sed, awk, less, vim, emacs and many more! However there are many dialects of regexps:-( once you start that road I recommed grep -E and sed -E fr the "extended" dialect which is closer to other programs.

You are a power user when your distro breaks and you have the knowledge of how to troubleshoot and repair it. That is when you are a power user in my opinion. Terminal commands aren't the entire picture.

what I tend to use constantly are: find, xargs, grep and sometimes awk occasionally tr and though it's not a simple command, but certainly use vim constantly

Great video as always, DT! I've always struggled with awk in particular, and just felt like going out of my way to learn it would be overwhelming, but this is far more approachable than I could have ever imagined.

The O'Reilly books are great for this sort of thing and many of them can be found online. In fact just about Unix Power User book will have this info. Of course Perl was designed to completely replace these tools and many others in one common programming language that uses much of the similar syntax you're familiar with from these tools.

A really useful thing to do with `sed` is something like `/{pattern}/ s/{pattern}/{template}/g` which restricts the replacement to lines matching the first pattern ... In Ed/Vi/Vim this would be `g/{pattern}/s/{pattern}/{template}/g`.

Just recently discovered your channel. Thanks for the useful content!

real power users live in the basement

The etymology is fun Globally search for Regular Expression and Print Stream EDit And the K in awk is Kernigan.

Great video as always. I think that along with these commands , however, I think that scripting and rudimentary programming (a basic understanding) are all part of being a "power user". As always enjoyed this video!

Awesome video DT, I would like to see more videos like this on linux command line tools. Thank you 😄

Thank you so much for this. It is for this type of content that I direct people to your channel.

00:34 _general regular expression print_ - yeah.. I like it..

You're awesome!, I needed this really, and I spent a lot of time on man pages without any good understanding, and might be I'm not good at understanding the whole English idioms and vocabulary.

My favorite command is TLDR. It makes short work of those overlong man pages!

Excellent video, DT! Very useful. Thanks!

Great DT, thank you very much !

Thank you, Derek - that was a good one.

I'd put cut and sort into this bunch. They leverage things you can do in a terminal by a lot.

Cool. those are the three commands I would have said had someone asked me what are the commands you should know. I can't tell you how often I have used sed and awk in scripts. Especially back in the day when installs were less refined I would create scripts to do configure the config files on installs I often did for clients.

I caught the basics of awk command. Now I have to practice to learn more. What a shame on me to work with linux for 20 years but avoid the awk...

Hey DT, longtime viewer over here with a suggestion. Is there any way you could provide sample files for these types of videos to make following along easier? Maybe put them on your site.

I need to get into the command line. I have lazily put it off, but now I need to exercise, and to gain some acuity. I need to get into some good entry level tutorials. I wonder what teaching would connect with me best. "Seek, and you will find", huh? This was a too advanced for me, but I got tiny amounts of it, and it made my brain work.

Indeed, that would be my definition of a Linux power user too. Somebody that starts bash scripting. But before the regular user starts bash scripting he goes through a stage of utilizing commandline core utils, such as grep, sed and awk.

awk is my favorite language, and I programmed in assy, c, perl, php, python, c++, java, js. Awk one liners are ok, I prefer to put the commands in a file, so I can run it again in the future. And so I remember how to do something, I have the history. Get the book.

Hey DT, that grep to search for files is pretty spiffy! I use a couple of other grep flags; "-i" = ignore case, and "-E" replaces the egrep command.

The problem with man pages is not their length. It is their cryptic notation. Even after using Linux for decades I still dread when I have to dig into the man pages.

My personal top 3 (or 4 if 'pipe' is count) for, sed, pipe, xargs.

Weird request, but could you Please make a video about a terminal DE? The entire process of booting up a system and then not using a graphical environment is so weird to me, I cannot wrap my head around it, as if it is an incomplete installation, but then again you have everything you need, so its a very interesting topic for me. Thank you!

excellent!

awk가 sed보다 훨씬 기능이 많은데, 그 이유는.. awk는 프로그래밍 언어이지만, sed는 그렇지 않기 때문... awk는 만든 사람 이름 3개를 합쳐서 만든 언어이고, bell연구소에서 일하던 사람들이 만든 언어이다.

feedback, please type the command on top, not below, since bottom part usually covered by youtube's progress bar and buttons

Great vid!

Commands ❌ Programming languages ✅

I use grep in a big block of code to index all the function names - grep -n "function" test.php - then I know what line to go to in vim

I always learn something on this channel.

I was doing some crazy conky scripts with those commands, they are awesome!

What is the step between noob and power user? Power noob ? I'm that one.

for sed i prefer using pipe (|) character instead of slash (/), too bad default mac sed is not supported, have to update

grep Irl doesn't work for me on Arch, DT. It says my string is not a file or directory and that the directory I call is a directory .... strange output.

Thank You DT .

I can see grep saving you a little time from using catfish, or your file managers search function, but for sid I don't see why I wouldn't just use my text editors built in find and replace tool. Maybe it's good if you use vim or nano, but that seems kinda niche.

I'd hardly say power user with grep and sed - they're everyday tools. Awk's really big, and needs a lot more love and attention to understand. That said, I had forgotten about the grep -I flag, thank you 🙂

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awk is enough

As a Linux tourist of 20 years, I often feel bad for the more typical Linux users who sometimes need to write software: because they always seem to think I'll find their skillset really interesting and useful. These 3 commands grep sed and awk may be abstract and powerful but I've never had any use for them. I may have used the first two, but only when I've been copying and pasting commands from forums to try and make the graphics driver work. And that isn't really the same as using them.

U could easily include cut in this

Great content 🎉

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beautiful ♥♥

But here's the thing, how many Linux users really want to be or need to be a power user? By the measures set out here alone, I'm definitely a newbie. But for my own needs, knowing how to prepare & partition the PC drive to install a distro, knowing how to install the distro, install various apps and updating them, do the occasional clean up, set out & retrieve backups, as well as knowing how to work with files in Linux, is about as much as I know, and most likely that would also be enough for 95 percent of Linux users out there. I ran away from Windows five years ago because it was getting clunky, resource & money greedy, and just outright pitiful. Linux has come a long way to be good enough for about 95 percent of PC users like myself. Anything beyond that, and you're either getting paid to be in it, or you own a lot of gear that needs to run Linux.

perfect

your workflow ? maybe ... but if i need your videos i am not working in linux i guaranty you , so basicaly workflow only mean i feel more important that i am

Do you see yourself as a "power user"?

Man, use the `b` and `e` when you move around the prompt line using vim-mode.

a power user is much like a power bottom in the gay community

A power user is someone that uses more than 80% of the operating systems advanced tools. Its not relegated to the Terminal.

How about something lighter "Nooby nooby noob , ahh nooby nooby noob, noo nooby. lol

i use arch btw

I'd just use perl oneliners instead of all of this

DT is not a power user imo

Real power users break their distro, and instead of learning grep, sed, awk, sudo, and 45,692,514,545,487,699 other commands, go back to Windows. Because we're no longer using *nix in the 80s.

Modern millennial and genx-er poseurs with their Steam Decks thinking that makes them Linux experts all of a sudden also simultaneously whine about having to use the Linux command line - the core point being that even three "words you have to type in at a shell prompt" will be something they are unwilling to do - unless the likes of you or I go round to their homes and type it in for them, whilst no doubt having to massage their tootsies and being accused of being "elitist" or a "gatekeeper" because nothing bad in their lives is ever their fault.

Real power users don't use apostrophs or quoting, when it is superfluous. ;) `grep Dereck .bashrc` is sufficient. If you need to mask blanks, then `grep "Bo Derek" .bashrc` would be sufficient. To search for expressions which would otherwise be interpreted by the shell, you need apostrophs. `grep $USER .bashrc` searches for a dereferencing of `$USER`, not for the dereferenced value.

s/Derek/Derk/g This is the way!