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Have you ever been amazed to see someone working very fast in UNIX terminal, firing commands, and doing things quickly?
Yes, I have seen that a couple of times, and It has always inspired me inspired to learn from those superstar developers.
In this article, or tutorial, or whatever you call it, I have shared some UNIX command practices I follow to work fast, quick, productive, or efficiently in Linux.
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I work for Financial services industry, and my work involves development and support of online stock and futures trading application in Electronic trading, Derivatives, FX, Commodity, and other asset classes.
All our services run on Linux servers so it's essential for us to work efficiently and quickly in a Linux terminal and that's how I have learned these productivity tips in Linux.
This article is like my earlier articles about Top 10 basic networking Commands in UNIX and How does nslookup command work in Linux.
If you have not read those, you can see if you find them interesting and useful. In this UNIX command tutorial, I am going to share my experience on how to work quick, fast, and efficiently in UNIX.
If your server also resides in a Linux machine and your day 2-day work involves a lot of searching and playing around UNIX commands then these tips will save a lot of your time.
Below tips are the result of my years of experience in UNIX terminal which I have summarized as 10 tips to work fast in UNIX.
Why I am sharing this?
Well, I love these kinds of productivity tips, which is easy to learn and remember but makes a huge difference in your day-to-day work. By sharing this, I am looking forward is to get some more tips from you guys to enhance my arsenal so please share how you work in UNIX, how you make most of powerful Linux commands and shell utilities provided by Linux and other UNIX operating systems like Fedora, Ubuntu, CentOS, etc.
Please share your experience by posting comments to make this post useful and get most of it and benefit from each other's expertise.
Anyway, let's start with these useful tips:
This has saved me 30% time on average. It always happens that you fire same UNIX command multiple times within a fraction of seconds,
before knowing this trick I used to use up and down arrow for finding my power and then executing them which takes a lot of my time, but, after knowing this trick, I just have to just remember the command name like !ls will execute your last "ls -lrt" , !vim will open your final file without typing full command.