Abstract
This chapter aims to help demystify the command line interface that is commonly used in UNIX and UNIX-like systems such as Linux and Mac OS X for language and linguistics researchers with little or no prior experience with it and to illustrate how it can be used for managing the file system and, more importantly, for text processing. Whereas most linguists are used to and comfortable with the graphic user interface, the command line interface does provide us with access to a wide range of computational tools for corpus processing, annotation, and analysis that may not be readily accessible through the graphic user interface. The specific command line interface used for illustration purposes in this chapter is the Terminal in Mac OS X, but the examples work in largely similar ways in the command line interface in a UNIX or Linux system.
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