Linux Administration/Commands/Redirects

This lesson covers streams, pipes, and redirects.

Objectives and Skills

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Objectives and skills for the streams, pipes, and redirects portion of Linux+ certification include:[1]

  • 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:

Readings

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

Multimedia

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

Activities

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

Lesson Summary

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Key Terms

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See also

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References

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