[kwlug-disc] top 10 command line commands

[Raul Suarez]

As you can see by the responses, the title should be 

"My top 10 command line commands"

different people are worried about different things.

I am purposely constrained on HDD (I don't want to end up with too much data so I clean my partitions frequently)

ls -la

df -h

du -h --max-depth=1

On multiuser systems knowing now to use chown and chmod properly is fundamental.

and of course ssh with all it's variations.

Regarding the Perl command you wrote, I prefer to do things like that in sed as it is more ubiquitous. But as I said, a matter of preference.

For me some of the most useful commands are:
sed
grep
ls
df
du
chown
chmod
mount (specially -o loop)
smbmount
ssh
less
man


Raul Suarez

Technology consultant
Software, Hardware and Practices
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--- On Tue, 12/15/09, Insurance Squared Inc. <gcooke at insurancesquared.com> wrote:

> From: Insurance Squared Inc. <gcooke at insurancesquared.com>
> Subject: [kwlug-disc] top 10 command line commands
> To: "KWLUG discussion" <kwlug-disc at kwlug.org>
> Received: Tuesday, December 15, 2009, 9:13 AM
> I want to write a post on the top 10
> linux command line commands.  (for two reasons. 
> One, cause it's useful.  Two, because I only have a top
> 2, so I believe learning another 8 is going to help me work
> better :).
> 
> Here's the top 2 of my top 10:
> grep -R string *   (find a string in a
> directory tree - useful for finding files with bits of
> code)
> perl -p -i -e 's/stringa/stringb/g'
> *   (search and replace.  yeah, I know
> it's perl. I use it frequently).
> 
> What would your top 10 command line commands be?  Ones
> that you use, are useful and flexible?
> 
> g.
> 
> 
> 
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