Process Text Streams using Filters Flashcards
What does the command cat do
Used to concatenate (join) and view text files
What does the command less do
Read-only text viewing utility. Allows for paging up and down within a file, and keyword searches
what does the command head do
Defaults to displaying the first 10 lines of a file
what does the command tail do
Defaults to displaying the last 10 lines of a file
What does the command zcat do
Used to view gzip compressed text files
What does the command bzcat do
Used to view bunzip2 cmopressed text files
What does the command xzcat do
Used to view XZ compressed text files
What does the command nl do
Prints the number of lines in a file. Output of the command can be modified to fit different cases
What does the command wc do
Used to print the number of words, lines, or bytes in a file
What does the command od do
The octal dump command,. Use to print out a file in octal or many other formats
what does the command md5sum do
Calculates and checks a files hash based on the md5 algorithm
What does the command sha256sum do
Calculates and checks a files hash value based on the SHA-2 hash algorithm using 256 bits
What does the command sha512sum do
Calculates and checks a files hash value based on the SHA-2 hash algorithm using 512 bits
What does the command sort do
used to sort and/or merge files
What does the command uniq do
Displays unique lines of a file
