discuss: GNU Linux Tools Summary
Subject:
Re: GNU Linux Tools Summary
From:
"s. keeling" ####@####.####
Date:
8 Jul 2004 19:19:16 -0000
Message-Id: <20040708191417.GA22592@infidel.spots.ab.ca>
Incoming from Rodolfo J. Paiz:
> At 02:39 AM 7/8/2004, Michael T Kerrisk wrote:
> >That's fine, but then you go into far too much esoteric material. I would
> >eliminate discussions of the following altogether:
> >
> >pgrep
> >pkill
> >skill
> >snice
> >slocate
> >lastlog
> >style
> >diff3
> >sdiff
> >figlet
> >join
> >enscript
> >chcase
> >rgrep
> >fgrep
> >The entire section 13 (Mathematical tools)
> >The entire Section 18. (Graphics tools (command line based)) and 19 (Audio
> >tools)
> >and other stuff as well...
>
> As a bit of support, in the last 8 years the commands in that list I've
> actually used are slocate, lastlog, and diff. Never even heard of a few of
> them.
slocate, figlet (just wondering what it was), join, enscript, and
fgrep. In Linux, [fer]grep is all the same animal (Gnu grep), which
changes its behaviour depending on which switches are used.
history | awk '{print $2}' | sort -u | less
will tell you what you've been up to lately. Mine's 71 lines long.
HISTFILESIZE=500
HISTSIZE=500
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