Linux/Parsing

lines

• grep
• tail

tail 
tail -f                # follow
tail -n 10             # last 10 lines 

• sed + control characters

sed 's/\x00/controlcharwashere/g'

• slowing output

cat incoming.log | pv -qL 1000 | tee temp

sed -n '/Iowa/,/Montana/p'

• show as hex

od -t x1 -An

• Links
  • http://www.unix.com/tips-tutorials/18009-12-ways-parse-file.html
  • http://sed.sourceforge.net/sed1line.txt
  • http://www.grymoire.com/Unix/Sed.html