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:Break Bad UNIX Habits With 10 Good Ones
Break Bad UNIX Habits With 10 Good Ones
Aug 3, 2008, 02 :00 UTC (9 Talkback[s]) (9429 reads)

(Other stories by Michael Stutz)

[ Thanks to An Anonymous Reader for this link. ]

"Ten good habits to adopt are:

Make directory trees in a single swipe.
Change the path; do not move the archive.
Combine your commands with control operators.
Quote variables with caution.
Use escape sequences to manage long input.
Group your commands together in a list.
Use xargs outside of find.
Know when grep should do the counting -- and when it should step aside.
Match certain fields in output, not just lines.
Stop piping cats."

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  Talkback(s) Name  and Date
This article is about how to use the com ...   Inconsistencies in command option syntax do exist.   
Theodore Kilgore
Aug 3, 2008, 06:18:56
 
> Then another one is that there is no u ...   Re: Inconsistencies in command option syntax do ex   
barney
Aug 3, 2008, 20:04:54
 
> Then another one is that there is no u ...   Re: Inconsistencies in command option syntax do ex   
Ano Nymous
Aug 3, 2008, 20:25:21
 
> Sometimes the "recursive" option is -R ...   Re: Inconsistencies in command option syntax do ex   
rcp
Aug 4, 2008, 02:47:07
 
> One last point: there are exceptions t ...   Re: Re: Inconsistencies in command option syntax d   
blackhole
Aug 4, 2008, 09:04:58
 
> the -r -R thing can be a pain sometime ...   Re: Re: Inconsistencies in command option syntax d   
Rob Owens
Aug 4, 2008, 12:09:37
 
> The general rule seems to be that sing ...   Re: Re: Inconsistencies in command option syntax d   
Theodore Kilgore
Aug 4, 2008, 18:46:23
 
> > One last point: there are exceptions ...   Re: Re: Re: Inconsistencies in command option synt   
rcp
Aug 5, 2008, 01:24:10
 
>Find really only has three true options ...   Re: Re: Re: Re: Inconsistencies in command option   
blackhole
Aug 5, 2008, 03:34:52
 
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