In this course, you'll learn how to read documentation and how to use standard streams with redirection and pipelines to facilitate text processing. By the end, you’ll be comfortable using the command line in your day-to-day data analysis tasks.
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This course builds on the Command Line for Data Science course. You’ll learn how to read documentation, how to inspect files, how to perform basic text processing using the command line, how to redirect and pipe output, and how to access documentation for different commands if you get stuck. Best of all, you’ll learn by doing — you’ll practice and get feedback directly in the browser.
Reading and exploring documentation
Inspecting files and performing basic text processing
Redirecting and piping output
Employing streams and file descriptors
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