Bash Cookbook

How it works...

Before proceeding, note that the contents of the loremipsum.txt file will be different for every instance downloaded. Lorem Ipsum is pseudo random text that is used in a variety of text-related duties, often as placeholder values because it looks to be a language of sorts and is useful where the human brain is disturbed by copy and paste stub text.

Great! Let's get started:

1. In the first step, the commands should produce similar results to the following block (for brevity, we excluded much of the output to keep the recipe coherent), but notice that head begins at the beginning, or head, of loremipsum.txt, and tail begins at the end, or tail, of loremipsum.txt. When we specify the -n flag with a decimal number such as 1, both ...