A great list of command-line tips

Re:A great list of command-line tips by Aethaeryn on Sunday April 15, 2012 @01:33PM (#3844145)

This is almost a useful resource, but there are many bashisms on the list! Its utility is kind of limited for those of us who use a different shell when they don't have some sort of standardized "this only works in bash" warning.

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Re:A great list of command-line tips by chimeracoder on Sunday April 15, 2012 @01:41PM (#3844162)

I have the opposite complaint: I'm using bash, but thinks like mtr aren't part of coreutils, so I think of them as just separate programs that happen to work at the command-line. I could just as easily list ttyter as a command-line 'tool' for tweeting from the command line.

I don't really have a solution to this, because at the end of the day, the goal is to do more things at the command line, but it'd be nice to have a way to distinguish between features of the shell, features of the OS, and non-OS programs that have command-line interfaces. Even if I'm interested in all three, it's nice to know that 'sudo !!' can be expected to work machines than mtr, for example.

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Re:A great list of command-line tips by bostonvaulter2 on Sunday April 15, 2012 @03:04PM (#3844358)

mtr is pretty awesome though, you should install it and give it a try.

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