Learning the commandline in Linux is making my life better.

[Gilbo]

Confessions of a CLI neophyte:
A couple weeks ago I finally got around to looking up how to do for loops in Bash. It's actually made my life noticeably better, saving me at least several minutes of monotous work nearly everyday. It allows me to quickly perform tasks that a GUI is ridiculously slow at. I wish I'd forced myself to look it up earlier.

Can anyone else think of linux commandline tools or commands that have noticeably improved their productivity? What were they?

 

[i]

Learn how to write cron jobs!

 

[Handruin]

tab completion of cli commands
tail -f
definitely crontab
top
grep
kill

Those are all I can think of right now.

 

[sechs]

more
ls
rm
man (or rtfm, if you have it)
su

 

[Gilbo]

Learn how to write cron jobs!

Ya, cron is good .

I think my next mission is going to be to learn to use awk and sed. Those look like very useful, if complicated tools.

And tab-completion is great Handruin. I can't live without it anymore.

 

[sechs]

The Windows XP command-line (and later versions of DOS) also have tab completion. *nix, has, of course, had it much longer.