December 13, 2006

Be Nice To Your Commandline

Good article showing you 10 things to avoid when using the command line. To wit:

  1. Make directory trees in a single swipe.
  2. Change the path; do not move the archive.
  3. Combine your commands with control operators.
  4. Quote variables with caution.
  5. Use escape sequences to manage long input.
  6. Group your commands together in a list.
  7. Use xargs outside of find.
  8. Know when grep should do the counting -- and when it should step aside.
  9. Match certain fields in output, not just lines.
  10. Stop piping cats.
Learn 10 good UNIX usage habits

Yet another shoutout to nixCraft for the pointer!

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