I use the Linux command line extensively, both on my local machine or when I’m connected to a remote server. There are some keyboard shortcuts that I want to share with you which have made my life on BASH a lot easier. I have not come across too many books that have documented these shortcuts and I think they are quite important to improve your productivity while on the command line.
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Anybody up to writing good directory software?
Tue, 2007-02-20 11:17 — David JonathanSince the very beginning, directories (of any kind) have had a very central role in the internet. (I have recently grown fond of Free Web Directory. Even Slashdot can be considered a directory: a collection of great news and invaluable user-generated comments. As far as software is concerned, doing a quick search on Google about software directories will return the free (as in freedom) software directories like Savannah, SourceForge, Freshmeat and so on, followed by shareware and freeware sites such as FileBuzz, PCWin Download Center and All Freeware (great if you're looking for shareware and freeware, but definitely less comprehensive than their free-as-in-freedom counterparts).
Is better education the key to finding better software?
Sat, 2007-03-03 03:25 — Edward RusselI read David Jonathon's article Anybody Up To Writing Good Directory Software? the other day, which got me thinking about software directories in general. As David mentioned, many of the software directories one finds when doing a quick google search are free as in beer, not as in freedom. But what interests me is the software directories that already exist, providing a combination of both free as in beer software, and open source software. Sites such as Freeware Downloads and Shareware Download don't advertise themselves as providing free as in liberty software, but each of them have a good selection of open source software available... if you know where to look.
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can.axis
3 years 17 weeks 3 days 8 hours ago
The GNU Bash Reference Manual (revised for version 3.2)
Network Theory Ltd: "...This manual is the definitive reference for GNU Bash, the standard GNU command-line interpreter. It covers the current major release of Bash (v3.2, revised printing November 2006). ..."
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3 years 17 weeks 9 hours 13 min ago
GNU BASH, not Linux BASH
There is no variant BASH that is published under the Linux brand. If anything, it is very likely that the referenced BASH program is actually GNU BASH. To use the term Linux BASH as a synonym for GNU BASH is completely confusing and unfair to the members of the GNU project.
Please do not make the mistake of confusing GNU as being part of the Linux project by referring to the GNU/Linux system as "Linux". http://www.gnu.org/gnu/why-gnu-linux.html
Balzac
3 years 16 weeks 6 days 21 hours ago
I agree, the title is inaccurate and irritating
But the content of the article was good. I'll be using those bash commands on a regular basis.