Replace string in files recursively linux
Find files containing text, then replace in-place
grep -rl 'old_string' /etc/ | xargs sed -i 's/old_string/new_string/g'
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Print specific columns with awk
awk '{print $1, $3}' /etc/passwd
Sum a column with awk
awk '{sum += $2} END {print sum}' file.txt
Delete lines matching pattern
sed -i '/^#/d' config.conf
Multi-line sed replacement
sed -n '/START/,/END/p' file.txt
Unique sorted values
sort file.txt | uniq -c | sort -rn