By Andrew SB
In the same vein as my previous question about bash aliases, what are your favorite command line tricks? What command has saved you the most time? What bash features did you never realize existed and now use daily and can’t live without?
Of course, there are the classics:
!!- Re-runs the last command you enteredsudo !!- Re-runs the last command you entered as a super user
What are yours? (No cheating.)
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maybe not that much, but i love tail -f to see what’s happening live on some demon’s logs
https://mosh.org/ instead of SSH! http://ohmyz.sh/ with several plugins.
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