Manuals / Linux Shell Daily / Ch 2

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2. Pipes & grep

Linux Shell Daily · 12 pages source format

Connect commands; find needles in logs.

What you'll learn

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  • grep
  • head/tail

Key idea

Pipes send stdout of one command to stdin of the next.

Quick check

grep is for…

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Write 3 notes on: Pipes.

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Practice

Download a sample log and extract ERROR lines.

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cat app.log | grep -i error | tail -n 20

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Commit one file practicing Pipes.

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