Text Processing Patterns

awk, sed, grep, regex, jq, xargs, escaping — the Unix lingua franca.

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awk

Field extraction, cert splitting, line ranges

sed

Delimiter tricks, in-place editing

grep

Search patterns, context matching

regex

IP matching, VLAN patterns, MAC extraction

jq

JSON processing, API response parsing

xargs

Safe bulk ops, parallel processing

escaping

Shell, regex, AsciiDoc quoting

Codex vs Pattern Journal

This captures when I used it. For syntax reference, see the Codex.