What this objective tests
EX200 Essential Tools — Key Topics
Redirect output with >, >>, 2>, and pipes, then process text using grep, sed, awk, cut, and sort; find files with find and locate, archive with tar and gzip, and create hard and symbolic links with ln. Get absolute versus relative path handling right.
- Redirect stdout and stderr with >, >>, 2>, and pipes between grep, cut, sort, and wc
- Locate files by name, owner, size, or mtime using find with -exec and xargs
- Create and extract tar archives, including gzip and bzip2 compression with tar czf and tar xjf
- Manage hard links and symbolic links with ln and ln -s, and read file contents via cat, less, head, tail