Sunday, June 17, 2007

10 Linux shell tricks you don’t already know

10 Linux shell tricks you don’t already know. Really, we swear.

http://www.venturecake.com/10-linux-shell-tricks-you-dont-already-know-for-once/

June 17th, 2007 19:42

1. A Simple way to Send Output and Errors
2. Parallelize Your Loops
3. Catch Memory Leaks By Using Top via Cron
4. Standard in directly from the command line
5. Set a Random Initial Password, That Must be Changed
6. Add Your Public Key to Remote Machines the Easy Way
7. Extract an RPM without any additional software
8. See How a File Has Changed from Factory Defaults
9. Undo Your Network Screwups After You’ve Lost the Connection
10. Check a Port is Open
Bonus Trick 1: The Easy Way to Extract Tar Archives
Bonus Trick 2: Use Math Shells
Bonus Trick 3: Never reboot a system for NFS failures
Bonus Trick 4: Encourage Others to Use & Contribute to Your Scripts
Bonus Trick 5: Shell Sites That Don’t Suck

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