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Unix Toolbox

by lostbit on 8/7/15, 2:41 PM with 38 comments

  • by res0nat0r on 8/7/15, 4:58 PM

    Unix Rosetta Stone is also very useful: http://bhami.com/rosetta.html
  • by lostbit on 8/7/15, 5:34 PM

    It was on my bookmarks for a long time. I thought it would be nice to share with you guys.

    There are so many times I do searches on HN to recall about some nice things I've seen oh the web... Quite often, the comments are the gems!

  • by jastr on 8/7/15, 7:25 PM

    Bro Pages (instead of "man" pages) is a similar resource I find myself using surprisingly often http://bropages.org/browse
  • by mholt on 8/8/15, 6:59 AM

    An excellent page to keep handy or for browsing! Thanks for the link.

    A different (but related) resource: http://explainshell.com - good for deciphering those tricker commands.

  • by Aloha on 8/7/15, 5:01 PM

    this is an incredibly useful shortlist of commands, most of these I've used before - some I've used and forgotten (mount -o remount,ro)
  • by tthayer on 8/7/15, 5:22 PM

    This is pretty great. Would be cool to get a filtered list based on the OS you were using.
  • by mb0 on 8/7/15, 8:10 PM

    hostname -i on cb.vu says the IP address is 78.31.70.238, but if you ping a host from the interface, the pings originate from 178.33.34.4 (according to tcpdump).
  • by harshulj on 8/7/15, 7:29 PM

    This is really incredible list. Very useful when in need. Especially the switches that come in very handy.
  • by aruggirello on 8/8/15, 8:13 AM

    > 2.2 Priority - ... Every command launched from this shell will have a lover priority. ...

    You probably meant lower :)

  • by mud_dauber on 8/7/15, 6:17 PM

    What an awesome list. Props!
  • by ashwinaj on 8/7/15, 6:05 PM

    This is awesome, thanks!
  • by wincent on 8/7/15, 10:53 PM

    I used to know a lot of this stuff. With Puppet, Chef, and then Ansible, I've found myself needing to know less and less of it.
  • by drdoom on 8/7/15, 8:00 PM

    What is with cb.vu? It takes you to the shell prompt...
  • by mcmullen on 8/7/15, 8:52 PM

    Nice list! Bookmarked.
  • by mozumder on 8/7/15, 9:21 PM

    This is great. Could use more on the Mac OS X side, though.