Ad Hoc Data Analysis From The Unix Command Line - Wikibooks, open books for an open worldOnce upon a time, I was working with a colleague who needed to do some quick data analysis to get a handle on the scope of a problem. He was considering importing the data into a database or writing a program to parse and summarize that data. Either of these options would have taken hours at least, and possibly days. I wrote this on his whiteboard: Your friends: cat, find, grep, wc, cut, sort, uni
