CLI Basics (Part 2 of 2)

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In this week's newsletter, I'll be presenting the second post in a short mini series on CLI fundamentals.
We'll be covering the final list of basic commands all engineers should know.
Creating Files with touch
, echo
, >
, >>
These commands help you create and manage file content.
Managing Files with rm
, cp
, mv
Essential file management commands.
Searching Files with grep
Search for patterns in files.
File Contents with cat
, less
, head
, tail
View file contents in different ways.
Combining Commands with |
(pipe)
The pipe operator is powerful for combining multiple commands.