Ad Hoc Data Analysis From The Unix Command Line

This short book explains how to do simple data analysis from the Unix or Linux command line, using only standard tools available in most shells on those operating system families.

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Table of Contents

  1. Preliminaries
  2. Standard Input, Standard Output, Redirection and Pipes
  3. Counting Part 1 - grep and wc
  4. Picking The Data Apart With cut
  5. Joining The Data Together With join
  6. Counting Part 2 - sort and uniq
  7. Rewriting The Data With Inline perl
  8. Quick Plotting With gnuplot
  9. Appendices

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