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episodes/04-pipefilter.md

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- `wc` counts lines, words, and characters in its inputs.
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- `cat` displays the contents of its inputs.
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- `sort` sorts its inputs.
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- `head` displays the first 10 lines of its input.
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- `tail` displays the last 10 lines of its input.
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- `head` displays the first 10 lines of its input by default without additional arguments.
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- `tail` displays the last 10 lines of its input by default without additional arguments.
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- `command > [file]` redirects a command's output to a file (overwriting any existing content).
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- `command >> [file]` appends a command's output to a file.
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- `[first] | [second]` is a pipeline: the output of the first command is used as the input to the second.

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