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Fundamentals of Linux
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Fundamentals of Linux

by Oliver Pelz
June 2018
Beginner content levelBeginner
234 pages
5h 36m
English
Packt Publishing
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Understanding standard streams

In this section, you will learn why every command can use three standard streams for accessing its input and output. Also, you will learn how to work with those input and output streams and how to use redirection. Finally, we will learn how to use pipes and why they are so important. One philosophy of the Linux operating system is that every command has exactly one functionality in the system, nothing more, and nothing less. For example, there's one command to list files, another to sort text, and one to print the file's content, and so on.

Now, one of the most important features of the shell is to connect different commands to create custom tailored solutions and tools for all kinds of problems and workflows. ...

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