10 Linux commands you've never used
It takes years maybe decades to master the commands available to you at the Linux shell prompt. Here are 10 that you will have never heard of or used. They are in no particular order. My favorite is mkfifo.
1. pgrep, instead of:
# ps -ef | egrep '^root ' | awk '{print $2}'
2. pstree, list the processes in a tree format. This can be VERY useful when working with WebSphere or other heavy duty applications.
3. bc is an arbitrary precision calculator language.
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re: 10 Linux comands
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10 seldom or never used GNU/Linux commands
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