Questions Tagged With shell

What is your text editor of choice?

Andy — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 14:54:09 -0400

I was curious to know what is the editor of choice for my fellow Linux users. For years it has been a vi vs. emacs debate but it appears there many more. Please reply with your favorite editor. I personally prefer vim.

Are there any Change Management Systems (CMS) for Linux?

Andy — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 19:28:56 -0400

I am curious to find out if there are any Change Management Systems available for Linux (free of course). I'd like to be able to make changes to common files I use but have the ability to "backout" those changes (version control). I have written some various shell scripts that do this in a very simple manner (cp existing file -> append date -> place in a different directory -> diff old/new and save that output) and perhaps that's enough but was hoping folks on here would know of same actual CMS tools out there.

Thanks - Andy

What is the most used command in your shell?

guerda — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 13:45:57 -0400

We all use the shell on a daily basis and know, what advantages it has.

I'd like you to post the most used commands you fired up in your shell.

If you use Bash, use this code:

cut -d\   -f 1 ~/.bash_history | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head -n 10 | sed 's/.*/    &/g'

If you use ZSH, use this code:

history 1| awk '{print $2}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head -n10

My Top 10 on a Subversion server is the following:

    135 cd
    113 ll
     73 vim
     59 less
     56 ls
     50 ps
     47 svnadmin
     47 df
     36 rm
     33 top

Now post your own!
Note: Please put 4 spaces in front of every row or click on the "Code" button (labeled with 101010). This makes your listing more readable.

Inspired by reddit.com. This question is marked as , so I'm not a reputation whore.

I learned you can close a shell without typing exit. Just press Ctrl+D!

What shells are available on the box ?

Knight Samar — Mon, 03 May 2010 08:16:53 -0400

Hi,

Is there a way to determine what shells are available on a Linux box other than trying out /bin/shellname ?

Even a workaround would do :)

Thanks.