A Practical Guide to Linux Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming, Fourth Edition

3 The Utilities

In This Chapter

Special Characters

Basic Utilities

less Is more: Display a Text File One Screen at a Time

Working with Files

lpr: Prints a File

| (Pipeline): Communicates Between Processes

Compressing and Archiving Files

Displaying User and System Information

Objectives

After reading this chapter you should be able to:

List special characters and methods of preventing the shell from interpreting these characters

Use basic utilities to list files and display text files

Copy, move, and remove files

Search, sort, print, and compare ...