Unix Tools

This repository simulates the unix-tools like wc, cut, head, tail, sort, uniq and also one extra functionality that is reduceSpaces.

How do you install?

• Download the .jar and .sh files.
• You just need to run the sh setPath.sh command. It will set environment variable for you.
• Then you can just run the shell files.
• For example if you want to run wc then sh sd_wc.sh $filename.

wc :

• Short for word count, wc displays a count of lines, words, and characters in a file.

sd_wc.sh filename.txt

cut :

• Removes or "cut out" sections of each line of a file.

sd_cut.sh filename.txt -fieldNo [delimiter]

head:

• Head makes it easy to output the first part of file contains first n lines.

sd_head.sh filename.txt

OR

sd_head.sh -noOfLines filename.txt

tail:

• Delivers the last part of the file contains last n lines.

sd_tail.sh filename.txt

OR

sd_tail.sh -noOfLines filename.txt

sort:

• Sorts the lines in a file and gives you both sorted data in original and reverse order.

sd_sort.sh filename.txt

uniq:

• Report or filter out repeated lines in a file.

sd_uniq.sh filename.txt

reduceSpaces:

• Reduces more than one occurence of blank spaces into 1.

sd_reduceSpaces.sh filename.txt