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Top Ten One-Liners from CommandLineFu Explained

by @pkrumins catonmat.net 8 min read

I love working in the shell. Mastery of shell lets you get things done in seconds, rather than minutes or hours, if you chose to write a program instead. In this article I'd like to explain the top one-liners from the commandlinefu.com. It's a user-driven website where people get to choose the best and most useful...

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