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Bash Cookbook
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Bash Cookbook

by Ron Brash, Ganesh Sanjiv Naik
July 2018
Beginner
264 pages
8h 9m
English
Packt Publishing
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Understanding and Gaining File System Mastery

In this chapter, we will introduce the following:

  • Viewing files from various angles – head, tail, less, and more
  • Searching for files by name and/or extension
  • Creating a diff of two files and patching
  • Creating symbolic links and using them effectively
  • Crawling filesystem directories and printing a tree
  • Finding and deleting duplicate files or directories
  • Joining and splitting files at arbitrary positions
  • Generating datasets and random files of various size
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