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Ten Cool Coreutils Commands

“4. stat
Using ‘ls -l’ will give a lot of information about a file, enough
for me at least. If you are a glutten for punishment, you can use
the ‘stat’ command to get more information:

“5. yes
‘yes’ is one of those strange legacy commands, the most comic
featured here. ‘yes’ prints a string and a newline and then repeats
until interrupted.

“As dumb as it sounds, it does have a couple of uses. Firstly,
if you want to turn an interactive command into a non-interactive
one.”

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