Colin Charles wrote: > On Fri, 2004-02-06 at 02:41, Mitch Wiedemann wrote: > > Why do you use xterms? > > How? > > Any specific tips or tricks you'd like to share? > > Good 'ole ls, cp, mv. alias!! 20:55:04:2544:gerrit@topjaklont:~$ alias alias cat='cat --show-nonprinting' alias cc='gcc' alias cdda2wav='cdda2wav -Icooked_ioctl -D/dev/cdrom' alias df='df -h' alias gcc='gcc -pipe -ansi -Wall -g -pedantic' alias grep='grep --extended-regexp' alias h='history' alias humbolt='slogin humbolt.nl.linux.org' alias l='ls --format=long' alias less='less --long-prompt --raw-control-chars' alias ll='LANG='\''nl_NL'\'' l --full-time --almost-all --reverse --sort=time --time-style='\''+%9A %d-%m-%Y %H:%M:%S'\''' alias lpr='lpr -l' alias ls='ls --classify --color=always --human-readable' alias mc='. /usr/share/mc/bin/mc-wrapper.sh' alias optiplex='slogin node17454.a2000.nl' alias pt='pstree -h -l -p -u' alias sourceforge='slogin shell.sourceforge.net' alias su='su --login' alias tree='tree -F -C -A' alias vi='vim' alias ytalk='ytalk -x' Best tool ever invented. And how would you do THIS in your favourite file manager: $ sb_mboxtrain.py -g ./ham -s ./spam && cat spam ham | formail -s procmail && rm ham spam && mv unsure aaa && formail -s procmail < aaa && rm aaa # train ham and spam and then reclassify all unsures $ for f in *.gz; do setfont $f; echo $f; python -c 'for i in range(128, 256): print i, chr(i),'; sleep 2; done # try to see how 8-bit characters look in all fonts $ cat .bash_history | sort | uniq -c | sort -n | grep topjaklont # find the most frequent used command with 'topjaklont' in it $ zcat homepage.log.gz | cut -d' ' -f7 -s | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | grep '/~gerrit/asperger/asperger-[0-9]\.html' | awk '{print $2, $1}' | sed -e 's/\/\~gerrit\/asperger\/asperger-/H/g' | sed -e 's/\.html//g' | /usr/local/bin/piechart -T png > homepage/stats/hoofdstuk.png # My favourite... create a pie-chart of the hits of the chapters of an article I've written ...and so on and so forth $ h | tail -1000 | sed -e 's/^ *[0-9]* *//g' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n | tail 13 python 18 su - 23 ls 25 gomail 26 mutt -f python-list\@python.org 29 mutt -f gerrit\@nl.linux.org 30 l 34 mutt -f unsure 50 mutt -f fedora-list\@redhat.com 210 ll Heh heh :-) Actually, the shell was one the main reasons for me to switch to Linux. Gerrit. -- Asperger Syndroom - een persoonlijke benadering: http://people.nl.linux.org/~gerrit/ Kom in verzet tegen dit kabinet: http://www.sp.nl/