A Practical Guide to Fedora™ and Red Hat® Enterprise Linux®, Seventh Edition

7. The Linux Utilities

In This Chapter

Basic Utilities

cat: Joins and Displays Files

less Is more: Display a Text File One Screen at a Time

ls: Displays Information About Files

Working with Files

grep: Searches for a Pattern in Files

lpr: Sends Files to Printers

Compressing and Archiving Files

Displaying User and System Information

script: Records a Shell Session

Tutorial: Using vim to Create and Edit a File

Tutorial: Using nano to Create and Edit a File

Objectives

After reading this chapter you should be able to:

Use basic utilities to list files and display text files

Copy, move, and remove files

Display the beginning or end of a file