Wednesday 19 March 2008

Unix pipes and other commands

Pipes "|"are really cool. They redirect output from one command and pass it as input into the next command. A useful command to use in this situation is grep which pattern matches line by line and displays that line if the match succeeds, but grep -v inverts how the command works, and displays every line that doesn't match the pattern, making it useful as a filter...very cool.

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