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Decks in this class (16)

Prerequisites
Absolute path,
Relative path,
Print current working directory pwd
12  cards
Unix History
0  cards
Terminal
Output text in red using console_...,
Influence of teletype machine input,
Composition of tools
5  cards
Documentation
Manual section purposes,
Man page,
Output man page as postscript html
40  cards
Shell
Shell,
Unix ipc supported by shell via c...,
Unix ipc not supported by shell
7  cards
6 File-descriptor redirect
Start a program and connect the t...,
Connect stdout of command1 to std...,
Advantages of pipe syntax over fu...
12  cards
7 Command-line argument conventions
Command options are by convention...,
Gnu tools offer alternatively lon...,
5  cards
8 Command-line argument preprocessing
Brace expansion,
Tilde expansion,
Parameter and command expansion s...
12  cards
9 Job control
Start command or entire pipe as a...,
Job number output by shell,
Foreground job
13  cards
10 Shell and environment variables
Set variable to value,
Make variable visible to called p...,
Modify environment variables for ...
18  cards
11 Scripts and plain-text files
Magic bytes for scripts intended ...,
Magic bytes for executable and li...,
Writing a script
5  cards
12 Compound commands
Lists,
Execute list in a subshell to con...,
Group a list to override operator...
13  cards
13 Typing shortcuts
All recently entered commands,
N_th history entry,
Previous command
13  cards
14 Startup scripts
Login logout
1  cards
15 sed stream editor
Sed scripts can be provided on th...,
Sed scripts can be provided in a ...,
General form of a sed command
22  cards
16 grep, head, tail, sort, ispell
0  cards

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