This is a journal the development process for this project. It is not intended to an extensive log of work, but rather a record of interesting challenges and errors and how they were resolved.
Piping is a way to connect the output of one program to the input of another program without any temporary file.
Commands
ls -llists the files in the current directory in long format.wc -lcounts the number of lines in the input.
Piping connects the output of ls -l to the input of wc -l.
ls -l | wc -lTo save the output of a command to a file (overwriting any existing content), use the > operator.
ls -l > file.txtTo append the output of a command to a file, use the >> operator.
ls -l >> file.txt