@@ -4,13 +4,13 @@ datatools
44
55_ datatools_ is a rich collection of command line programs targetting
66data conversion, cleanup and analysis directly from your favorite
7- POSIX shell. It has proven useful for data collaberations where
7+ POSIX shell. It has proven useful for data collaborations where
88individual members of a project may prefer different toolsets in their
99analysis (e.g. Julia, R, Python) but want to work from a common baseline.
1010It also has been used intensively for internal reporting from various
1111Caltech Library metadata sources.
1212
13- The tools fall into three broad categories
13+ The tools fall into three broad categories
1414
1515- data transformation and conversion
1616- shell scripting helpers
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ intermediate data format.
3939For the shell
4040-------------
4141
42- Various utilities for simplifying work on the command line.
42+ Various utilities for simplifying work on the command line.
4343
4444+ [ findfile] ( docs/findfile/ ) - find files based on prefix, suffix or contained string
4545+ [ finddir] ( docs/finddir/ ) - find directories based on prefix, suffix or contained string
@@ -53,15 +53,15 @@ Various utilities for simplifying work on the command line.
5353For strings
5454-----------
5555
56- _ datatools_ provides the [ string] ( docs/string/ ) command for working with
57- text strings (limited to memory available). This is commonly needed when
58- cleanup data for analysis. The _ string_ command was created for when the
59- old Unix standbys- grep, awk, sed, tr are unwieldly or inconvient.
60- _ string_ provides operations are common in most language like, trimming,
61- spliting , and transforming letter case. The _ string_ command also makes
62- it easy to join JSON string arrays into single a string using a delimiter
63- or split a string into a JSON array based on a delimiter. The form of the
64- command is ` string [OPTIONS] [ACTION] [ARCTION_PARAMETERS ...] `
56+ _ datatools_ provides the [ string] ( docs/string/ ) command for working with
57+ text strings (limited to memory available). This is commonly needed when
58+ cleanup data for analysis. The _ string_ command was created for when the
59+ old Unix standbys- grep, awk, sed, tr are unwieldly or inconvenient.
60+ _ string_ provides operations are common in most language like, trimming,
61+ splitting , and transforming letter case. The _ string_ command also makes
62+ it easy to join JSON string arrays into single a string using a delimiter
63+ or split a string into a JSON array based on a delimiter. The form of the
64+ command is ` string [OPTIONS] [ACTION] [ACTION_PARAMETERS ...] `
6565
6666``` shell
6767 string toupper " one two three"
@@ -82,6 +82,5 @@ See [string](docs/string/) for full details
8282Installation
8383------------
8484
85- See [ INSTALL.md] ( install. html) for details for installing pre-compiled
85+ See [ INSTALL.md] ( https://caltechlibrary.github.io/datatools/INSTALL. html) for details for installing pre-compiled
8686versions of the programs.
87-
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