Unix Command-Line Kung Fu

http://www.scribd.com/vacuum?url=http://www.deer-run.com/~hal/UnixCommandLineKungFu.pdf

by __ • 18 years ago

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projectileboy• 18 years ago

This is fabulous for us recovering Windows users. Thanks!

halo2• 18 years ago

Non-Scribd link: http://www.deer-run.com/~hal/UnixCommandLineKungFu.pdf

tx2• 18 years ago

Thank you!!! Why couldn't this be done in normal HTML?

mechanical_fish• 18 years ago

You know, I remember back when PDF links used to seem like torture. And yet, this one is like a breath of fresh air.

(Part of the reason is that PDF has been around long enough that better tools have evolved to replace the astoundingly awful Adobe Acrobat of yore. Thank you, Apple Preview! Thank you, Foxit Reader! Thank you... um, whoever wrote that Linux PDF reader that I can't remember the name of, but which comes with Ubuntu and just works!)

technoguyrob2• 18 years ago

It's funny, because saying "Here's a PDF link" in response to a Scribd document is to me almost like saying "here's a WMV version" to a YouTube page.

// in fact, it's almost exactly like that, since the latter (Scribd/YouTube) is just a presentation layer for the former (PDF/WMV)

EDIT: Could the person who downmodded me please explain? I'll delete my comment afterward. Thank you.

EDIT2: After reading the two posts below, I now redact everything in this comment. :) I didn't say what I meant. I agree, I have no problems with PDFs either. However, I don't have a problem with WMVs either, since they open flawlessly in VLC. My point was that it's funny because I've gotten used to the worldview of "Oh noooo, PDF!" (and similarly, "oh noooo, WMV!"), and now it's kind of funny to see the opposite happening ("here's a PDF!" instead of screams of anguish).

Also, Paul, this is why I add a comment edit requesting clarification each time I get downmodded to 0 without a reply (and suggest my peers do likewise). Not because I disagree or find it questionable (I don't), I would simply like more feedback than that and hope it instills that habit into people reading my edit and the person who modded me down, since feedback is what makes Hacker News.

nickb• 18 years ago

I have to agree... Safari + Preview provides for a much better user experience than any other combo. Adobe Acrobat/Reader is what most of the Win people have to suffer trough understandably might appreciate alternatives. I just don't think Flash-bases stuff is much better (even though Scribd has done a great job and pushed the tech to its max).

orib• 18 years ago

Thank you! Scribd is quite annoying for viewing PDFs with the non-native behavior, the flash plugin which I block by default, and the inability to save easily for future reference.

I hope people directly link PDFs in the future. Thanks.

paulgb2• 18 years ago

> I hope people directly link PDFs in the future. Thanks.

FYI, at one point hacker news would change PDF links to Scribd links automatically. There was a poll about it a while back.

lapenne• 18 years ago

On the front page? C'mon this is kindergarden stuff! I thought this was Hacker News. :-)

Hexstream• 18 years ago

Kindergarden sure has progressed since last time I went there!

jimbokun• 18 years ago

Hey, Barack Obama started preparing in Kindergarten to become President. Kindergarten's no time for slacking.

matstc• 18 years ago

Let me add two more:

<Alt> <.> brings out the last argument of the last command, and can be pressed multiple times.

<Alt> </> prints the contents of the cwd, or the directory from the path you're typing.

pkrumins• 18 years ago

I have also written 3 blog posts about command line kung fu:

Bash's Vi Command Line Editing Mode:

http://www.catonmat.net/blog/bash-vi-editing-mode-cheat-shee...

Bash's Emacs Editing Mode:

http://www.catonmat.net/blog/bash-emacs-editing-mode-cheat-s...

The Definitive Guide to Bash Command Line History:

http://www.catonmat.net/blog/the-definitive-guide-to-bash-co...

All three articles come with a downloadable cheat sheets (pdf and txt).

mleonhard• 18 years ago

More unix kung-fu:

screen (http://www.gnu.org/software/screen/)

recs (http://code.google.com/p/recordstream/)

stiff• 18 years ago

I guess it's the white belt...

davidw• 18 years ago

Huh, interesting (well, for me), that guy's business is about 500 meters from my parents' house in Eugene.

Unix Command-Line Kung Fu

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