tar xzf Yes_I_Know_IT-EP24.tar.gz
cd EP24
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In practice, you will rarely use the fold
and fmt
commands alone. They often are the final stage of some pipeline involving data extraction or text transformation commands like grep
, awk
or sed
. If you do not already know those commands, I suggest you take a look at the following videos for an introduction:
Some knowledge of the awk
and sed
commands will especially be interesting here since they are required to solve to video’s challenge. So review the syntax of those commands if needed, then, once you will have answered the challenge, don’t forget to post your solution in the comment section!
I encourage you to download the files used on the video so you will be able to try the same commands as me on your own system.
The link above will allow you to download a gzipped tar archive of the files used in the video. To extract the content of that archive on your system, you can use the command:
tar xzf Yes_I_Know_IT-EP24.tar.gz
cd EP24
If you don’t have the time to watch the video entirely, here are few links to jump directly to the section that interests you the most:
Video’s challenge--based on a sample file available for download on https://yesik.it/EP24
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