SAMS Teach Yourself Red Hat® Fedora™ 4 Linux® All in One

Summary

In this chapter, you added to your collection of shell skills that will ultimately help you to become productive at the Linux command line. You learned to group files for issuing commands and otherwise working with them efficiently. You also learned commands for finding files, file types, and specific words or word patterns in files quickly and easily. You learned two ways to hook commands together to save time, effort, and disk space.

Along the way, you learned the following new commands, keystrokes, and special characters for use at the shell prompt:

• > redirects standard output to a new file.

• >> appends standard output to an existing file.

• find searches for files in real time.

• grep searches a file for a particular piece of text or pattern ...