Ask HN: What are your top most useful Unix commands?

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Post by nns » Thu, Oct 31, 2019, 4:20 PM UTC

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Re: Ask HN: What are your top most useful Unix commands?

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Post by chmielewski » Thu, Oct 31, 2019, 4:26 PM UTC

time cat

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Post by apotatopot » Thu, Oct 31, 2019, 4:27 PM UTC

top

jk, but also not.

w !sudo tee % in vim, even tho that's not really directly a unix thing?

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Post by hntddt1 » Thu, Oct 31, 2019, 4:30 PM UTC

ls

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Post by 0x445442 » Thu, Oct 31, 2019, 4:35 PM UTC

dirs -v pushd popd

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Post by wbsun » Thu, Oct 31, 2019, 4:41 PM UTC

cd pwd ls

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Post by jjjbokma » Thu, Oct 31, 2019, 5:57 PM UTC

find, grep

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Post by antoineMoPa » Thu, Oct 31, 2019, 6:21 PM UTC

grep, find, tail -f (useful to look at log files as they update)

Extras: sort, uniq, sed, sftp, apropos, man

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Post by potta_coffee » Thu, Oct 31, 2019, 7:12 PM UTC

history | grep

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Post by jjjbokma » Thu, Oct 31, 2019, 9:00 PM UTC

antoineMoPa wrote: post #8

grep, find, tail -f (useful to look at log files as they update) Extras: sort, uniq, sed, sftp, apropos, man

tail -F

This will also follow a log file if it rotates.