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Linux – filters

Linux Filter commands accept input data from stdin (standard input) and produce output on stdout (standard output). It transforms plain-text data into a meaningful way and can be used with pipes to perform higher operations.

1 grep global regular expression print → filters the content of a file which makes our search easy.

E.g : cat /etc/passwd | grep root or ls -ltr | grep videos

2 sort sort <fileName>  , eg : sort /etc/passwd