I was wondering if people would like to talk about some of the things that you might be able to do with some simple utilities that are included with most Linux distros.
Quite often the Linux versions of Unix standard programs come from the GNU project and are completely packed with new and useful features. Two of my favourites:
1) -h option (human readable) in df and du commands 2) less pager F option to go into "tail -f" mode of a logfile you are looking at; which can then be changed back to regular less with an interrupt key
I am using now quite often the -v option to grep since I learnt of that one. It removes a pattern from the imput to grep. Quite useful.
-- Mike Lake Caver, Linux enthusiast and interested in anything technical.
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