Piping

Question 1

Piping

Answer 1

directing one command one commands output into another command input.

Question 2

how would you take the date command and insert it into a txt document called date.txt

Answer 2

date >date.txt

Question 3

what is a delimiter

Answer 3

A delimiter is a sequence of one or more characters for specifying the boundary between separate, independent regions in plain text or other data streams. An example of a delimiter is the comma character, which acts as a field delimiter in a sequence of comma-separated values.

Question 4

how would you get just the day of the week using the date,pipe, and cut.

Answer 4

date | cut –delimiter “ “ –fields 1

Question 5

what are sections of data which are broken up by delimiters

Answer 5

fields

Question 6

what is processed first? redirections or pipes?

think of it like PEMDAS.

Answer 6

redirection

Question 7

tee command function

Answer 7

sends standard output to two independent destinations [ex. standardin, file.txt]

Question 8

cut the date command IOT show day of week on terminal. Show full date in separate folder labeled fulldate.txt

Answer 8

date | tee fulldate.txt | cut –delimiter “ “ –fields 1

Question 9

cut the date command IOT show day of week in today.txt. append full date in separate folder labeled today.txt

Answer 9

redirection stops piping

Question 10

can you pipe a standard output after redirecting it?

Answer 10

no

Question 11

cut the date command IOT show day of week in today.txt. append full date in separate folder labeled today.txt. take snapshot of data after cut performs function.

Answer 11

date | tee fulldate.txt | cut –delimiter “ “ –field 1 | tee postcut.txt |&raquo_space;today.txt