Commands to process Text Streams in Linux

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A text stream is the movement of data. Linux includes simple commands to help you search , check ,or sort the contents of a file . And there are special files that contain others ,some of these container files are known colloquially as "tarballs".

Tarballs are common way to distribute Linux packages . They are normally distributed in a compressed format, with a .tar.gz or .tgz file extensions, consolidated as a package in a single file.

1) sort
2) diff
3) cmp
4) wc
5) sed 
6) awk
7) grep
8) egrep