5. The Linux Utilities

Chapter Objectives

After reading this chapter you should be able to:

• List special characters and methods of preventing interpretation of these characters

• Use basic utilities to list files and display text files

• Copy, move, and remove files

• Search, sort, print, and compare text files

• String commands together using a pipe

• Compress, decompress, and archive files

• Locate utilities ...

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