This paper revolves around the initial setup and implementation of the website and you are supposed to review documentation, scripts, and sample files that were installed on the Linux and Apache environment. You are asked to explain the concepts of filters, pipes, and redirection. Also, explain how and what the below mentioned commands are trying to accomplish and present a clear structured report.  

During the initial setup and implementation of the Website, you have been reviewing some of the documentation, scripts, and sample files that were installed on the Linux and Apache environment. In more than one place, you have noticed several familiar commands, but they have all been on one line. The ability of one command to send the output it generates to the input of a second command is a very important concept for the UNIX environment.

Describe the concepts of filters, pipes, and redirection and explain how and what the following commands are trying to accomplish (if some commands are not yet familiar, you can describe the overall process of each step):

ls /etc | grep conf | grep -v “/.” | sort > ~/conf
cat /etc/passwd | awk -F”:” ‘{print $1}’ | sort >> ~/users 2>&1
The deliverable for the assignment should include the following:  

Description of filters (including the 3 standard files every filter uses)
Description of pipes
Description of redirection
Explanation of the 2 commands above