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The following are some of the most commonly used MS-DOS commands and its equivalent in Linux. This cheat sheet is for those of you who have just switched from Windows to Linux and are just getting acquainted with the terminal.
"I have joined up with some of the guys from ODYNUG who have started meeting for breakfast and learning Common Lisp together. We are all using some version of Emacs, SLIME, and SBCL. Blaine shared a cool way to make SLIME load much faster..."
"When you are working in a shell you certainly don’t want to waste your time using arrow keys or home/end keys to navigate around the command line. One of the most popular shells, bash - Bourne Again SHell, uses GNU’s Readline library for reading the command line. The GNU Readline library provides a set of functions for use by applications that allow users to edit command lines as they are typed in. The readline library also includes functions to maintain a list of previously-entered command lines, to recall and perhaps reedit those lines, and perform csh-like history expansion on previous commands. Both emacs and vi editing modes are available.
With the Ubuntu 8.04 release a few days away, there comes a time when one needs an end-all reference to the system. The time is now, and if you’re an Ubuntu user and liked the original cheat sheet, then do we have a surprise for you
"As documented previously I’m moving to a new VPS at Slicehost. I decided to be more adventurous this time and run the latest development version of Emacs (version 23). I’m currently attempting to get this installed together with the latest CVS version of Slime and the latest Git version of SBCL (there is a GIT repository that mirrors the main CVS one).This is a lot of bleeding edge software and I’m hoping I can get all of it to interoperate. I’ll attempt to document it here..."
Groklaw calls it “slime, slime, slime,” but what it truly might be is a simple case of bullying and intimidation. We saw this in Malaysia and days some ago we saw this India (heaps of similar examples are cited therein, including the story about jilted CIOs).
" Let me teach you how to work efficiently with command line history in bash. This tutorial comes with a downloadable cheat sheet that summarizes (and expands on) topics covered here (scroll to the end for a download link). In case you are a first time reader, this is the 3rd part of the article series on working efficiently in bourne again shell. Previously I have written on how to work efficiently in vi and emacs command editing modes by using predefined keyboard shortcuts (both articles come with cheat sheets of predefined shortcuts)..."
