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Linux Terminal Commands every Developer Should Know
So you’ve started using Linux. At a glance, depending on which distribution you’ve chosen, Linux might be somewhat overwhelming. Anyone jumping into new versions of Ubuntu knows how sleek Gnome can be to work in. Someone choosing the XFCE flavor would be instantly reminded of an older Windows machine.
Regardless of which distro you’re using, Linux is extremely powerful. The best parts of this miraculous OS aren’t instantly recognizable for anyone unfamiliar with diving into a command prompt in windows. However, diving into Linux’s terminal shows how amazing working out of a terminal can be. A few simple commands show just how powerful the terminal truly is.
The Pipe Command ( | )
Most people never even use the pipe key. Some people might not even know it exists! However, despite its obscurity as a keyboard key, this simple one character command serves as one of the most useful commands available in Linux.
Long story short, the pipe character (the | symbol) is used to concurrently run two commands in the terminal while using the output of the first command as input for the second.
Let me demonstrate (and give a sneak peak of a few other great commands):
cat readme.txt | grep “Read…
