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:Four Completely Useless Linux Commands

Four Completely Useless Linux Commands
Feb 2, 2009, 21 :32 UTC (5 Talkback[s]) (7763 reads)

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"Second, you’ll learn the internals of a particular feature (for example, configuring NIS) when you configure it using command line, instead of configuring it using UI.
"While using command line intensively, following are the 4 Linux commands that I find practically useless. If you think they are useful, please explain a practical scenario under which you’ll use these commands with examples."

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