Concatenate

14Dec07

The cat command is short for concatenate, which I looked up in the dictionary and which means “to link or join together”. Essentially, it will display the contents of a text file with another text file (or files) directly under it, as in:
cat file1.txt file2.txt

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Using pipes for real, and installing software from bash

10Dec07

I wanted to see if I could install some software from a repository using the command line. Fedora uses the following command:
yum install packagename
But what do you do when you don’t exactly know the package’s name, perhaps because it has something descriptive appended to the end of the filename?
Well this is what you do:
yum [...]

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