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What's Your Command Line Judo?

Posted by Cliff on from the |-ownz0r dept.

lousyd asks: "We all have our CLI amor. That two- or three-letter command that fiddles our heartstrings. 'mv' is pedestrian, but 'mmv' is so cool. 'cp' can lug bits around all day to no applause, but 'cpio' will excite even the most jaded of command line linguists. 'How perfect!' you exclaim. So what's your poison? What turns you on? What little known command performs just the right function for you?"

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  1. mv + vi by BinLadenMyHero · · Score: 0, Troll

    Try the vimv script.
    It loads a script with the mv commands in vi, let's you edit it, and then runs it.
    Very quick and straightforward to use.
    It even aligns the second column of target names, so you can use the block commands of Vim (try ctrl-shift-v then move around) to easly mass-rename files, like keeping song names in your standard (I use "style/Artist.YYYY.Album Title/NN.Song Title.ext").

  2. Re:Junction for Windows by bergeron76 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Some of the more usefule CLI commands in Windows, IMO. I hope this discussion wasn't limited to Unix or anything.

    No this discussion isn't limited to "Unix or anything". The only limitation here is basic grammar.

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