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Introduction: Introduce how to work with, view, find and search the content of text files. The workshop is aimed at beginners with basic command-line experience of the Linux file system and will focus on hands-on exercises.

This tutorial is available as a PDF here.

Course Goals

  • View the content of text-based files.

  • Search a file for a string. 

  • Search for a file/folder by name.

  • Redirect output from commands and pipe commands together. 

  • Be very exercise based to allow practice of commands and concepts.

  • Suggest other areas of Linux and commands to explore.

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Notes:

  • This tutorial is available as a PDF here.

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Sections

  1. View and Search a File: Use various commands to view, inspect and search a text file.

  2. Search for a File: How to search for a file, by name, across a hierarchy of folders.

  3. Output Redirection and Pipes: Introduce how to pipe the output of one command into the input of another, and how to redirect the output of a command into a file.

  4. Intermediate Features and Summary:

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  1. A quick review and suggestion of other commands and areas of Linux to explore further after this workshop that you’ll find useful.

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