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One of the really useful features almost every Unix shell has is support for command aliases – a way to run a command or a series of Unix commands using a shorter name you get associated with such commands.
UNIX has hundreds if not thousands of commands, and it's impossible to remember every option and nuance. But, happily, you don't have to: man, UNIX's built-in, online reference system, is man's best friend. Take a look at this shortcut guide to the UNIX man pages system.
UNIX has hundreds if not thousands of commands, and it's impossible to remember every option and nuance. But, happily, you don't have to: man, UNIX's built-in, online reference system, is man's best friend.
Here we go, bash scripting is nothing more then combining lots of UNIX commands
to do things for you, you can even make simple games in bash
(just UNIX commands) or as in normal cases, batch files to control things
in your computer.
Today's post is yet another in a somewhat disjointed series of posts on "stuff you might not know and you might find interesting" regarding very common commands. And they don't get much more common than the "who" command.
Perhaps your company is just switching to Linux, to save on costs. Or, maybe you’re starting University, and you have no idea how to get around the Linux Systems they’ve just installed. Or if you’re like me, you’re curious about how Linux works, and you have it installed at home.