Unix Commands I Wish I’d Discovered Years Earlier
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Unix Commands I Wish I’d Discovered Years Earlier
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#2I'm always surprised at the lack of general knowledge of Regular Expressions, so egrep would be a huge one for newcomers.
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#3Never knew about the "cal" command. I especially like that you can quickly look up a previous or future month/year.
>> cal 3 1973
quickly shows a calendar of March 1973
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#4I recommend Quicksilver on mac, free and powerful. It lets you to find a lot of stuff (application, contact, email, etc.) and manipulate them (send, forward, print, etc.)
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#5Never knew about the "cal" command. I especially like that you can quickly look up a previous or future month/year. >> cal 3 1973 quickly shows a calendar of March 1973
Aliasing to 'cal -3' can also be good if you want a little continuity.
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#6I want a command that counts files in a tree like du does sizes but without having to pipe find through wc which is crazy for hundred thousand files.
Can't they just directly access inodes for high speed counting?
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#7Never knew about the "cal" command. I especially like that you can quickly look up a previous or future month/year. >> cal 3 1973 quickly shows a calendar of March 1973
you can even look up `cal sept 1752`
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#8Never knew about the "cal" command. I especially like that you can quickly look up a previous or future month/year. >> cal 3 1973 quickly shows a calendar of March 1973
Right, you can use this to easily find the number of days in an arbitrary month in a script:
% cal 2 1972 | tail +3 | wc -w
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#9I'm unreasonably excited about discovering xxd.
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#10I recommend Quicksilver on mac, free and powerful. It lets you to find a lot of stuff (application, contact, email, etc.) and manipulate them (send, forward, print, etc.) http://qsapp.com/
Also in that vein on Mac it's worth having a look at Alfred http://alfredapp.com