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Read the beginning of piped text
Linux Commands: Read the beginning of piped text using GNU/Linux commands in an empty practice directory.
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Read the directory portion of a path
Linux Commands: Read the directory portion of a path using GNU/Linux commands in an empty practice directory.
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Read the end of piped text
Linux Commands: Read the end of piped text using GNU/Linux commands in an empty practice directory.
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Read the filename portion of a path
Linux Commands: Read the filename portion of a path using GNU/Linux commands in an empty practice directory.
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Read the target stored in a symbolic link
Linux Commands: Use readlink without resolving the target path.
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Remove a leading directory while extracting
Linux Commands: Use strip-components only after inspecting a trusted archive layout.
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Remove adjacent duplicate lines
Linux Commands: Remove adjacent duplicate lines using GNU/Linux commands in an empty practice directory.
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Remove an empty directory only
Linux Commands: Use rmdir so a directory containing files cannot be removed accidentally.
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Remove blank or whitespace-only lines
Linux Commands: Use a POSIX character class so tabs and spaces are handled together.
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Remove carriage-return characters
Linux Commands: Use tr -d to remove CR characters from Windows-style line endings.
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Rename a file with mv
Linux Commands: Rename a known file in the current directory and inspect its new contents.
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Rename a practice file
Linux Commands: Rename a practice file using GNU/Linux commands in an empty practice directory.
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