Easy Question

[Trafficflow]

I am new and I am still learning. I am determined to learn on my own but I get stuck every so often. I am trying to use the command lsusb grep natsemi. What does the line stand for in the center? How do you put it in?

[Toshubu]

I think you're talking about the "|" symbol. I think they call it a pipe symbol; and it is the upper case (shift) version of the backslash (\) key, on a standard us keyboard. I would think-in the context you're using, the command would be: lsusb | grep natsemi.

[Trafficflow]

Thanks. That was it.

[suavecu]

That is the case. And what it does is send the output to another program. So in this case when you are running lsusb, normally the output is just sent to terminal for you to see. When you pipe it to grep (use the |) it send the output to the grep program, which then searches for a particular string and prints the lines that have that string to your terminal.