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This evening i will be showing a group of students some of my favorite command-line tricks. Does anyone have any favorites that you think need to be in a "greatest hits"?
#shell #unix #linux #commandLine
@markgalassi remember that not everything about the command line is the shell, some is readline (unless zsh?). But, betting you'll cover bash, i'd suggest
(a) tab completion (b) ^R history search, (c) apropos
@http http, thanks! I am an avid user of tab completion and even more of ^R (which I use nonstop - maybe because I'm a 40 year emacs user).
Vis-a-vis apropos, I am not so convinced: I just tried `apropos pdf annotation` hoping it would hone in on xournalpp, but instead of gave 83 matches with various pdf manipulators. "apropos C compiler" is also quite useless: it gives gcc, as well as 11720 other matches. Maybe I need to understand "apropos" better.