By the way, a quick poll, what’s your favorite shell? For me it’s — obviously — zsh!

script <filename>                              Saves everything output in the console in the
                                               file, until EOT (^D).
cd -                                           Go to prevous directory (not the parent one
                                               like cd ..).
C-l                                            The same as `clear`: cleans the console.
tac                                            The same as `cat` but in reverse order (from the
                                               last line of the file).
mkdir -p path/to/{dir1,dir2,.../{dir1,Dir2}}   Creates the whole tree.
dialog                                         Creates a GUI like environment. See man page.
nc -l -p PORT                                  Listens to the PORT, and outputs everything sent
                                               to it to stdout.
nc HOST PORT                                   Send the stdin to the HOST:PORT.
^err^new                                       Replaces 'err' by 'new' in the previous entry
pgrep <processname>                            PID of the processus named processname.
C-r + start typing                             Search the history.
watch -d <command>                             Executes command every 2sec (can be changed with
                                               --interval=secs) and show the differences in the output.
reset                                          Cleans the term, when binary output messed the
                                               thing up.
lsof                                           List open files.

Originally published by Greg for Cup of Coffee on 05 Jul 2009. | Permalink | One comment | Add to del.icio.us

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