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Learning Raspbian

You're reading from   Learning Raspbian Get up and running with Raspbian and make the most out of your Raspberry Pi

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2015
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ISBN-13 9781784392192
Length 154 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. The Raspberry Pi and Raspbian 2. Getting Started with Raspbian FREE CHAPTER 3. Starting Raspbian 4. An Introduction to the Raspbian Desktop 5. Installing Software on Raspbian 6. The Console 7. Other Linux Distributions Based on Raspbian A. References Index

Redirection in bash


One of the more advanced features of bash are the redirection operators. These operators allow you to divert the input or output of a command to another command or file. While this sounds simple, it is an extremely powerful feature. There are several redirection operators built into bash, as shown here:

Operator

Description

|

This is a general-purpose command that chains similar to >

>

This redirects the output of a command to a file

<

This reads a file and passes it to the command

>>

This appends the output of the command to a file

Redirection operators

The | operator is a general-purpose command-changing tool. A simple example of this is to use it with cat and the program more. The more program is a simple program that lets you move backward and forward throughout a file on the screen in order to read it. The more command gets the data that you want to read from the cat command. The | operator connects two programs together.

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