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Top 10 Good UNIX Usage Habits
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Adopt 10 good habits that improve your UNIX ® command line efficiency -- and break away from bad usage patterns in the process. This article takes you step-by-step through several good, but too often neglected, techniques for command-line operations.
| 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. |
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