Todd Walton wrote:
> What turns you on?

gawk; talk; nice; date; wine; cd ~; grep; touch; unzip; finger; gasp;
suck; lyx; strip; slurp; uptime; mount; fsck; more; yes; gasp; umount;
make clean; make mrproper; sleep

I never get tired of that one. :)

> 1) What's the best way to alias ls?  I currently have "alias ll="ls
> -l"" in my .bash_aliases, but it displays more information than I'd
> like.  Actually, just the "number of links to the file" could go.  I
> never use that info.  What "ls" symlinks or aliases do you use?

I have never been able to get into the habit of using ls aliases. I
always type out  ls -la. I guess this is because those aliases don't
come preinstalled on the system and I never get around to setting them
up on every system I work on (and I end up working on a lot of systems)
so I just never got into that habit.

> 2) What are those commands that do nifty things with processes?  I
> discovered a process manipulation command a while back, but I forgot
> what it was and I'm bummed.  I could kill commands based on what
> spawned them or what conceptual category they belong to and many other
> things.  What was that?

I like piping ls through awk to pick out a column such as pid or ppid or
process name and then feed that to kill or something.

> 3) I like 'rename', but I like 'rename.pl' more, because learning Perl
> is an ongoing project for me.

hah...I remember asking how to rename a file 12 years ago when I was a
Linux n00b. :)

> 4) What the heck is 'lesspipe' for?

No idea.

> 5) Does 'tee' have a use?

I've never used it myself but it seems to be taught in every basic unix
class.


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Tracy R Reed
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