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Learn 10 good UNIX usage habits

13 points by nreece 19y ago

donal 19y ago
So good, it has been posted before: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=103725 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=103725 I do this because I found the comments in the other one useful, not to be a dick. It is a dick-move, though, but at least I'm honest.
dreish 19y ago
10 list-of-ten articles on news.yc: 1. 10 reasons you should start a startup before turning 25 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=123078 2. 10 less-than-great personality traits of entrepreneurs http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=123193 3. The Next Disruptors (10 game-changing startups) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=123788 4. 10 quotes against work http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=121984 5. The top 10 lies of entrepreneurs http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=121502 6. Learn Git 10 Different Ways http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=121937 7. Press for Startups: 10 tips http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=120128 8. 10 Overrated Business Books (and What to Read Instead) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=54324 9. 10 Signs Your Startup Might Be On The Rocks http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=100064 10. 10 Most Amazing Google Search Tricks http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=111768
- pchristensen 19y ago
  +1 both for sarcasm and usefulness!
  - dreish 19y ago
    Yeah, I wish I'd seen the "top ten signs" (#9) a long time ago. It might have saved me from blowing my early 20s on a good idea that I just couldn't execute on. (It was basically Google Base, but with no commitment from the friends I asked to help me, with no successful sites under my belt, and using only the primitive tools of 1997. Oh, and the unworkable resource-cost-to-impression-revenue economics of that era as well.) I wish I'd also been slapped in the face with the observation (linked to from somewhere on news.yc) that a great idea with no execution is worth about $10.
hernan7 19y ago
Good list, but I disagree about the 'piping cats' point. It always seemed like premature optimization to me. Also, the cat at the beginning of the pipe can help readability. Something like cat file.txt | grep some_regex | sed ... Versus grep some_regex < file.txt | sed ... I like the first version more, it kind of reads like "take file.txt, then grep, etc". You read it and immediately know you will be working with file.txt. The second one, it's not as obvious. Just a nitpick, sorry for the long post.
- mds 19y ago
  I agree. Among other things, it allows you to easily substitute head or tail for cat when building up a pipeline to work on the output of large files.
  - hernan7 19y ago
    Good point

13 points by nreece 19y ago

donal 19y ago

So good, it has been posted before: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=103725 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=103725 I do this because I found the comments in the other one useful, not to be a dick. It is a dick-move, though, but at least I'm honest.

dreish 19y ago

10 list-of-ten articles on news.yc: 1. 10 reasons you should start a startup before turning 25 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=123078 2. 10 less-than-great personality traits of entrepreneurs http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=123193 3. The Next Disruptors (10 game-changing startups) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=123788 4. 10 quotes against work http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=121984 5. The top 10 lies of entrepreneurs http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=121502 6. Learn Git 10 Different Ways http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=121937 7. Press for Startups: 10 tips http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=120128 8. 10 Overrated Business Books (and What to Read Instead) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=54324 9. 10 Signs Your Startup Might Be On The Rocks http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=100064 10. 10 Most Amazing Google Search Tricks http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=111768

pchristensen 19y ago
+1 both for sarcasm and usefulness!
- dreish 19y ago
  Yeah, I wish I'd seen the "top ten signs" (#9) a long time ago. It might have saved me from blowing my early 20s on a good idea that I just couldn't execute on. (It was basically Google Base, but with no commitment from the friends I asked to help me, with no successful sites under my belt, and using only the primitive tools of 1997. Oh, and the unworkable resource-cost-to-impression-revenue economics of that era as well.) I wish I'd also been slapped in the face with the observation (linked to from somewhere on news.yc) that a great idea with no execution is worth about $10.

hernan7 19y ago

Good list, but I disagree about the 'piping cats' point. It always seemed like premature optimization to me. Also, the cat at the beginning of the pipe can help readability. Something like cat file.txt | grep some_regex | sed ... Versus grep some_regex < file.txt | sed ... I like the first version more, it kind of reads like "take file.txt, then grep, etc". You read it and immediately know you will be working with file.txt. The second one, it's not as obvious. Just a nitpick, sorry for the long post.

mds 19y ago
I agree. Among other things, it allows you to easily substitute head or tail for cat when building up a pipeline to work on the output of large files.
- hernan7 19y ago
  Good point