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lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 12 hours ago

Shell Tricks That Actually Make Life Easier (And Save Your Sanity)

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Shell Tricks That Actually Make Life Easier (And Save Your Sanity)

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lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 12 hours ago
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Watch someone backspace 40 characters instead of pressing CTRL+W, and you’ll understand why this list exists. A collection of shell tricks-grouped by what works everywhere and what’s Bash/Zsh-speci...
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    Great article but this shouldn’t be called “Tricks” it should be called Shell Basics. I’m old enough to remember taking an Intro To Unix course and there was an entire day on the shell where these types of commands were presented as essential learning.

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      Yeah. All of those and more are in the manual: https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.html#Readline-Bare-Essentials

      Yes, I know there are other shells than bash, but it’s the one included as default almost everywhere, and where the article starts too.

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