A Practical Guide to Red Hat Linux: Fedora Core and Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Second Edition

Chapter 5. The Linux Utilities

IN THIS CHAPTER
Special Characters
Basic Utilities
less Is more: Displaying a Text File One Screen at a Time
Working with Files
lpr: Prints a File
| (Pipe): Communicates Between Processes
Compressing and Archiving a File
Obtaining User and System Information
Tutorial: Creating and Editing a File with vim (vi)

When Linus Torvalds introduced Linux, and for a long time thereafter, Linux did not have a graphical interface: It ran on character-based terminals only. All the tools ran from a command line. Today, the Linux GUI is important, but many people, especially system administrators, run many command line programs. In a lot of cases, command line utilities are faster, more powerful, or more complete than their GUI ...