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[xSauronx]

link!

i thought some here (on the chance they didnt catch it anyway) would enjoy the thread. theres some interesting, useful tips, tricks and ideas. its worth looking over 🙂

feel free to post your own, while youre at it 🙂

 

[AnonymouseUser]

It's not much, but I use "Shift + Insert" all the time to paste the clipboard contents into a terminal.

 

[jhu]

ls -d /dev/* | egrep -e '^/dev/[h|s]d[a-z]$' | xargs -l1 -r shred -vfz -n 100

hmmm... absolutely depends on what your definition of "useful" is...

 

[Red Squirrel]

Tab key. I hate using terminal in windows, especially if it's windows 98. It's just not right without the Linux style tab that auto completes paths/commands or lists what matches.

 

[xSauronx]

Originally posted by: RedSquirrel
Tab key. I hate using terminal in windows, especially if it's windows 98. It's just not right without the Linux style tab that auto completes paths/commands or lists what matches.

xp/vista (dunno about 2000) has autocomplete oin directories, though it doesnt work the same as with bash, which im used to, and therefore prefer. it will autocomplete executables, too, if youre in the right directory (i expect theres a way to change your default path to include windows EXEs, but i dont use windows enough to care how to do it)

 

[jersiq]

hold down shift and press the Z key twice while in VI is the same as :wq!