A simple shell command such as echo a b c
consists of the command itself followed by arguments, separated by spaces.
More complex shell commands are composed of simple commands arranged together in a variety of ways: in a pipeline in which the output of one command becomes the input of a second, in a loop or conditional construct, or in some other grouping.
Simple Commands | The most common type of command. |
Pipelines | Connecting the input and output of several commands. |
Lists | How to execute commands sequentially. |
Compound Commands | Shell commands for control flow. |
Coprocesses | Two-way communication between commands. |
GNU Parallel | Running commands in parallel. |
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