Favorite/most useful command you could not live without?
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Put me down for "find" as the killer command.
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less - after years of 'more', less was a real breath of fresh air. It scrolls up as well as down & has a search function as well.
Some "big iron" UNIX's "more" command does this as well. Linux's didn't ever seem to, though. Drives me a bit crazy when I get onto some of the systems at work, most of which don't have "less".
I'm something like "ls" addicted. Every time I enter a directory I run it. Every time I login I run it. Even when I don't need it. It just happens automatially.
About "more useful/serious" commands, "less" is really good stuff...
It's a hard question to answer. Obviously you can't function without a lot of things and tend to use a lot of commands a lot however you especially feel about them, like 'cd' and 'ls'. And some apps are just extremely nifty things, like 'screen', but that's just a console app and I assume we're talking strict CLI. And picking one favorite - I dunno. But find, sed, grep, sort, uniq. And 'df' and 'free' and 'ps' and 'top'. And 'kill'. And 'file'. And 'which'. And 'locate' - I go bonkers on systems without locate. And on and on.
I think I'd have to say 'sed'. if I really had to pick one, though I'm a few light years from being really good with it.
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