Mission 12

Text pipelines

Use safe simulated pipes to count, sort, and deduplicate text output.

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Lesson support

What to notice while you play.

Objective

Understand how one command's output can become another command's input.

Hint

Use echo with quoted words before trying cat with a pipe.

Why it matters

Pipelines make terminals powerful, but this lab keeps them tightly limited.

Common mistakes
  • Trying shell operators that are not part of the simulator.
  • Expecting pipes to run arbitrary programs.
Reference

Commands in this lesson.

echo <text>

Print text or write safe lab notes with >.

wc [-l] <file>

Count lines, words, and characters.

sort|uniq

Practice simple text pipelines.