Meta package / quick reference for string manipulation commands?

Posted by Dylan McCall on Ask Ubuntu See other posts from Ask Ubuntu or by Dylan McCall
Published on 2011-01-14T23:58:09Z Indexed on 2011/01/15 0:58 UTC
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The latest version of the Scribes text editor lets us select some text, hit Alt+X, and then run an arbitrary command. For example, I can run the sort command and the selected text is replaced appropriately.

This is quite useful but I am also not very well-versed in awk and the like. Is there something I can grab that will provide more of these commands like sort? Maybe a package with a whole bunch of handy, task-specific string manipulation commands?

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