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(Useful) Stupid Unix Tricks?

Posted by timothy on from the sed-is-underrated dept.

So the other day I messaged another admin from the console using the regular old 'write' command (as I've been doing for over 10 years). To my surprise he didn't know how to respond back to me (he had to call me on the phone) and had never even known you could do that. That got me thinking that there's probably lots of things like that, and likely things I've never heard of. What sorts of things do you take for granted as a natural part of Unix that other people are surprised at?

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  1. Ohh, those people by jonaskoelker · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'm not sure if anyone in our society remembers them, but I think parent is talking about our kin with superhexadecichromatic vision. They were worshiping religious "icons" and the "hand of god". They could survive much greater monitor luminance than we.

    A strange breed, really. Lost in the mist of history.

    [increases the IV caffeine rate, grooms beard]