In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:
- Concatenating with cat
- Recording and playing back terminal sessions
- Finding files and file listing
- Playing with xargs
- Translating with tr
- Checksum and verification
- Cryptographic tools and hashes
- Sorting unique and duplicate lines
- Temporary file naming and random numbers
- Splitting files and data
- Slicing filenames based on extensions Â
- Renaming and moving files in bulk
- Spell–checking and dictionary manipulation  Â
- Automating interactive input
- Making commands quicker by running parallel processes
- Examining a directory, files and subdirectories in it
