Using and Administering Linux: Volume 1: Zero to SysAdmin: Getting Started

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D. BothUsing and Administering Linux: Volume 1https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9618-9_9

9. Data Streams

David Both¹  

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Raleigh, NC, USA

 

Objectives

In this chapter you will learn

• How text data streams form the architectural basis for the extreme flexibility of the Linux command line

• How to generate streams of text data

• How to create a new logical volume (LV) for use in the experiments in this chapter

• How to use pipes, STDIO, and many of the core utilities to manipulate text data streams

• How to redirect data streams to and from files

• Basic usage of some of the special device files in the /dev directory

Data Streams as Raw Materials

Everything in ...