Even as a decades long 'nix user, I had never used join until recently, which joins lines of two files on a common field. I used to turn to fgrep or a Python script to solve a whole class of problems join can help solve on the command-line.
Linux utils that you might not know
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#12for extra fun try watch -t -n 1 "factor \$(date +%s)"
I thought it started with the for for a second there.
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#13As much as people make fun of him for caring so much about a seemingly minor point, I've come around to understanding RMS's frustration about people calling all of the GNU project "Linux". This sort of title drives home why: neither Linus nor anyone else on the Linux project had anything to do with any of this.
and on the contrary: aside from the title, is anything in this article specific to Linux?
Actually not, since these GNU tools could be used on BSD as well.
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#14As much as people make fun of him for caring so much about a seemingly minor point, I've come around to understanding RMS's frustration about people calling all of the GNU project "Linux". This sort of title drives home why: neither Linus nor anyone else on the Linux project had anything to do with any of this.
If someone wrote an article titled "Windows utils that you might not know," I would not expect it's content to be solely applications written by Microsoft.
With WSL (and cygwin) this could be windows utils you may not know.
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#15It always pains me when I see people use "cat" left and right, even when they don't need it.
This makes for good reading: http://porkmail.org/era/unix/award.html
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#16It always pains me when I see people use "cat" left and right, even when they don't need it. This makes for good reading: http://porkmail.org/era/unix/award.html
Many people chain ps and grep... pgrep does that
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#19One note: I believe `shred` won't work as expected on a journaling file system like ext4.
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#20Anyone here will probably enjoy checking out commandlinefu: http://commandlinefu.com
Especially looking down the list of all time greats: http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/browse/sort-by-votes