Notes: In "Quote variables with caution", it says to use square brackets, and then goes on to give a correct example with curly braces. "Stop piping cats" only refers to piping to grep, but in reality there's almost never a good reason to pipe a single-file cat. The < operator provides a file on standard input. So "cat foo | wc -l" can become "wc -l < foo"

On Sunday 17 December 2006 05:47, Don Ellis wrote:

KC Guys - I thought you might like to see this item.

--Don Ellis

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ed Howland [email protected] Date: Dec 16, 2006 2:09 PM Subject: [DISCUSS] 10 Good Unix command line habits To: [email protected], Central West End Linux Users Group < [email protected]>

A good article from IBM developerWorks.

http://tinyurl.com/vof3r

Or the full thing: http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/aix/library/au-badunixhabits.html?ca= lnxw01GoodUnixHabits

Now some of the examples don't work (mkdir with parenthesized dirs) on Debian-like systems. But you might find a few gems there. I did.

Ed

Ed Howland http://greenprogrammer.blogspot.com

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