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  • CLI Part 4. Working With File Contents

    A few notes on nano and vim for editing text files via the command line.

    ...y features to even scratch the surface here - but I'll jot down some of the very basic concepts and commands. For the full run down, I'd recommend perusing through: Vim Online Wikipedia Entry First thing ...
  • CLI Part 3. Working With The Filesystem

    Ah, file management and structure. One of the areas I think GUIs still have so far to go.

    ... that more isn't limited to displaying file content, it's also great for managing output from other commands (see the second example below). Example: $ more myFile.txt $ ls myVeryLargeDirectory | more Sin...
  • CLI Part 2. Searching

    Second part of CLI tips. Now onto searching the file system and files.

    Some basics on info, find and grep.

  • CLI Part 1. Navigation

    The command line is not only a fantastically fast way to work with your *nix system, it's also a great way to make people think you are a leet hacker. But for that you will need to have a repertoire of handy commands at your disposal.

    The following are but a small collection of commands I either use regularly, or find very useful in specific situations.

    Enjoy!

  • CLI Part 5. Compression and Archives

    So here are my most commonly used archiving commands.