UNIX tips: Learn 10 good UNIX usage habits


	UNIX tips: Learn 10 good UNIX usage habits

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1-24-2008 11:03 PM

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			<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="#one">Make directory trees in a single swipe</A>.</LI>
			<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="#two">Change the path; do not move the archive</A>.</LI>
			<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="#three">Combine your commands with control operators</A>.</LI>
			<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="#four">Quote variables with caution</A>.</LI>
			<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="#five">Use escape sequences to manage long input</A>.</LI>
			<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="#six">Group your commands together in a list</A>.</LI>
			<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="#seven">Use <CODE>xargs</CODE> outside of <CODE>find</CODE></A>.</LI>
			<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="#eight">Know when <CODE>grep</CODE> should do the counting -- and when it
				should step aside</A>.</LI>
			<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="#nine">Match certain fields in output, not just lines</A>.</LI>
			<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="#ten">Stop piping <CODE>cat</CODE>s</A>.</LI></OL></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/6DF9E528-0135-4BA3-AE34-454E2F633A09/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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