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Filed under: Asides | October 8th, 2004

Command Line Tricks

Cool command line tricks

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  • David | October 8th, 2004 @ 8:16 pm | Reply

    With all due respect, I have been using those command line “tricks” since 1987. Some might be a slightly new, but any UNIX (or UNIX alike) daily user knows them quite well. Ahhh… newbies! :-P

  • Felix | October 9th, 2004 @ 4:15 pm | Reply

    If you liked that you might also like Jerry Peek’s book “Unix Power Tools”. Sort of a tome of command line tricks/hacks. It’s an O’Reilly book. If it had been written later, it might be in one of their “* Cookbook” or maybe more like “* Hacks” series.

    Also, you mentioned in August that you were looking at zsh, any progress? Zsh has a lot to offer. Though one of the most useful is the command line completion, which you can easily enable by adding these commands to your .zshrc:
    autoload -U compinit; compinit

    Zsh has quite a few CL tricks…

  • Rob Mientjes | October 9th, 2004 @ 7:14 pm | Reply

    Bummer. I don’t have any space left for any Linux version (well, okay, maybe Knoppix from a CD or something), but I would certainly like to have a Gentoo box.

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  • rob | October 11th, 2004 @ 10:37 pm | Reply

    Some good ones there, definitely bookmarked :)

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