Good on you. It's funny how infinite is the ocean of command line utilities, e.g. as a long time user of the command line: 1. I only learned about "grep -r" 8 years ago (in my first workplace in Australia) 2. I only discovered that "less -R" (capital "R") is much better for viewing and searching colorised text files than "less -r" (lower case "r") a couple of weeks ago. 3. two days ago I found how to make "awk" access environment variables (through ENVIRON["VARIABLENAME"]), though I knew what I was looking for. 4. Only a short while ago I learned a trick to script "echo line >> root-only-writable-file" by replacing it with "echo line | sudo tee -a root-only-writable-file".
And the list goes on and on. The take away? Command line veterans can also benefit and enjoy such a meeting by learning and sharing their own knowledge. Wish I could attend. On 18 August 2013 03:09, Eli Billauer <e...@billauer.co.il> wrote: > On Monday, August 19th at 18:30, Haifux will gather to hear a talk by Eli > Billauer: > > Command-line utilities: Tips and tricks (part II) > > Command-line utilities is the real power of a Linux computer, and yet > there's always a few useful utilities that even an experienced Linux user > doesn't know about. This meeting is dedicated to going through several > random utilities, some of which are less known, others are known but have > surprising possibilities. > > The range goes from things as simple as using "touch" to fake a > modification date to using ssh for surfing the web (with your browser) as > if your computer was in another country. > > No previous knowledge is required. Even though newbies will gain the most > of this meeting, there is also room for those more familiar with the shell > prompt. Those who want to take the stand for a few minutes to talk about a > utility are welcome, of course. > > There will be no slides during this meetings, just a shell window for > demonstrations. > > For the list of suggested topics that may or may not be covered: > > http://haifux.org/lectures/**305/ <http://haifux.org/lectures/305/> > > ==============================**==============================**===== > > We meet in Taub building, room 6. For instructions see: > http://www.haifux.org/where.**html <http://www.haifux.org/where.html> > > Attendance is free, and you are all invited! > > ==============================**==============================**====== > Future lectures: > > 02/09/13 You & The Biometric Database: Jonathan J. Klinger > > > ==============================**==============================**====== > > We are always interested in hearing your talks and ideas. If you wish to > give a talk, hold a discussion, or just plan some event haifux might be > interested in, please contact us at webmas...@haifux.org > > -- > Web: http://www.billauer.co.il > > > ______________________________**_________________ > Linux-il mailing list > linux...@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/**mailman/listinfo/linux-il<http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il> > -- [image: View my profile on LinkedIn] <http://www.linkedin.com/in/gliderflyer>
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