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Don't fear the command line: Redirecting And Appending

Dionysia Lemonaki on July 21, 2020

In my last post I talked briefly about a very important concept when it comes to the command line,Standard Input and Standard Output. If you would ...
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Meike

"The appending operator is a useful addition" 😂

I can't repeat it often enough, I love your way of explaining things! Thank you for bringing up the copy vs cat thing, too, I finally get it and won't have to look them up again! That's so awesome! Thank you for another superb addition to this series! I so much hope you're still planning on more! 🤩

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Dionysia Lemonaki

I made my first (tragic) tech joke haha😂

Thank you Meike for always being so supportive with every article I've written, it means so much to me!

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Meike

I love it!!! 😂

Of course! I very selfishly want you to write a whole lot more, because my education truly benefits from it! 😁

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Ankur Chattopadhyay • Edited

Found this one on my feed and turned up reading the other 3 articles of the series too. 🔥
I got really absorbed into reading these succinct but appropriate descriptions for the command line commands. 👍🏻

I truly wish to see more of these! 🌟

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Dionysia Lemonaki

Thank you so much for your kind words! 🙏

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Matthieu Cneude • Edited

Nice article! I'm doing basically everything in the shell. It's really fun, and it's easy to automate.

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Dionysia Lemonaki

Thank you! It really does make certain tasks so much easier!

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chris wilkinson

Thank you for this! I'm trying to get more adept at using the command line and your posts are helping. 😎

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Dionysia Lemonaki

Thank you so much for your comment,I am so glad you are finding them helpful!

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Shravan Kumar B

Hi, Can I use your CLI contents for putting them as learning materials in twitter?

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Dionysia Lemonaki

Uum, no I wouldn't want you to use my content.

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Shravan Kumar B

I really love the way you are exploring the CLI

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Ben Sinclair

The other big difference between using cp src dest and cat src > dest is that dest's file permissions will likely differ between the two operations.

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Dionysia Lemonaki

Thanks for adding that.

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Tilak Madichetti

😏

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Functional Javascript

It's always good to get a refresher on the basics.
Keep up the phenomenal work Dionysia.

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Dionysia Lemonaki

Thanks!