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Pipes and Filters

Piping commands together

In our current directory, we want to find the 3 files which have the least number of lines. Which command listed below would work?

wc -l * > sort -n > head -n 3

wc -l * | sort -n | head -n 1-3

wc -l * | head -n 3 | sort -n

wc -l * | sort -n | head -n 3

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Introduction

Terminal Exercises

Navigating Files and Directories

Absolute vs relative paths

Absolute vs relative paths

Ls reading comprehension

Working With Files and Directories

Moving Files to a new folder

Renaming Files

Moving and Copying

List filenames matching a pattern

Pipes and Filters

Appending data

Piping commands together

Pipe construction

Which pipe?

Removing unneeded files

Loops

Write your own loop

Limiting sets of files

Saving to a file in a loop

Saving to a file in a loop - part 2

Shell Scripts

List unique species

Variables in shell scripts

Longest file with a given extension

Finding Things

Using grep

Tracking a species

Little women

Matching and subtracting

The end

The end