I did some looking at my shell history for the past year or so and made some casual observations, here: Most used shell commands and wanted to single out a number of commands and pipes that might be interesting to someone. What follows is a handful of commands from my shell history, from the last […]
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Most used shell commands
I remember reading that “ls” was the most commonly used shell command. Not sure why I thought about it today but, it dawned on me that I could easily calculate it directly from my shell command history. Years ago I went about configuring my shell command history options to my liking. Among several others are […]
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Why would you want to be an expert with the shell? Well, perhaps some developers or CS elitists would look down their nose upon shell scripting and consider that to be a “lowly” IT skill. To that I say bullhockey! As a software developer, the shell is your interface to the OS. (At least in […]
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