10 Linux commands you’ve never used

[spinynorman]

An interesting article at Bash Cures Cancer. It's a bit old but I don't think it matters in this case.

 

Not sure about the site name... :huh:

[Greg2]

There's some good cli stuff there that we (or I :)) forget to use.

 

Here's one for the 10 commands you most often use:

history | awk '{print $2}' | awk 'BEGIN {FS="|"} {print $1}' | sort|uniq -c | sort -rn | head -10

You can use that as user and root.

[arctic]

Hmm... of those commands I have used pstree already. Am I a Linux-Guru now?

[Kieth]

I've never used even one! In fact, I don't even understand any of it! Does that make me an "Linux - de-Guru"

[theYinYeti]

I already knew about 6 out of the 10 commands, and I actually use them.

Still, I'm glad to know about the other 4, especially “col†and “xmlwfâ€, as those address issues I often have.

 

Yves.

 

(the other two I didn't know are “pgrep†and “nlâ€)

[adamw]

I'd used four of them before, but as YinYeti says, it's a useful post for the others :) Thanks.

[neddie]

There are some more useful commands / tricks / jokes at this slashdot thread. Don't try them all out though!

And for sillier stuff see these shell jokes.

 

:P

[SilverSurfer60]

Very amusing Neddie.