Understanding and Gaining File System Mastery

In this chapter, we will introduce the following:

• Viewing files from various angles – head, tail, less, and more
• Searching for files by name and/or extension
• Creating a diff of two files and patching
• Creating symbolic links and using them effectively
• Crawling filesystem directories and printing a tree
• Finding and deleting duplicate files or directories
• Joining and splitting files at arbitrary positions
• Generating datasets and random files of various size