Chapter 10. Common Unix Shell Commands: File, Directory, and Disk Operations

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A large fraction of the truly good uses for a command-line application revolve around manipulating files in some fashion. It's immediately obvious that a command-line–based painting program sounds like a rather cumbersome tool (although we will talk about a command-line photo-editing suite in Chapters 13, “Using Common Command-Line Applications and Application ...

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