Linux Administration/Commands/Redirects

This lesson covers streams, pipes, and redirects.

Objectives and Skills

Objectives and skills for the streams, pipes, and redirects portion of Linux+ certification include:

• Use streams, pipes, and redirects
  • Redirecting standard input, standard output and standard error
  • Pipe the output of one command to the input of another command
  • Use the output of one command as arguments to another command
  • Send output to both stdout and a file
  • The following is a partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
    • tee
    • xargs
    • sponge

Readings

1. Wikipedia: Redirection (computing)
2. Wikipedia: Standard streams: stdout, stderr and how to redirected them: 2>&1

Multimedia

1. YouTube: Using Linux Stream, Pipes, and Redirects

Activities

1. Complete the tutorial IBM: Learn Linux, 101: Streams, pipes, and redirects

See also

• tee

References

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