Ten good UNIX usage habits

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BANGALORE, INDIA: This tip provides 10 good habits to adopt that will improve your UNIX command-line efficiency. Learn about common errors and how to overcome them, and discover exactly why these 10 UNIX habits are worth picking up!

Let's face it: Bad habits are hard to break. But habits that you've just become comfortable with can be even more difficult to overcome. Sometimes, a fresh look at things may provide you with an "A-ha, I didn't know you could do that!" moment. Building on Michael Stutz's excellent article, "Learn 10 good UNIX usage habits," this tip suggests 10 more UNIX command-line commands, tools, and techniques that may make you more productive as a UNIX command-line wizard.

The 10 additional good habits you should adopt are:

    * Use file name completion.
    * Use history expansion.
    * Reuse previous arguments.
    * Manage directory navigation with pushd and popd.
    * Find large files.
    * Create temporary files without an editor.
    * Use the curl command-line utility.
    * Make the most of regular expressions.
    * Determine the current user.
    * Process data with awk.

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