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Author Topic: [shell-fu]$  (Read 7056 times)

PhilB66

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[shell-fu]$
« on: April 09, 2008, 07:45 PM »
shell-fu.png is a place for all those little command line goodies that you come across and then can never find again when you need them.

(via Hackosis Blog)

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Re: [shell-fu]$
« Reply #1 on: April 10, 2008, 06:38 AM »
wow they show some very neat tricks there!  :Thmbsup:

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Re: [shell-fu]$
« Reply #2 on: April 16, 2008, 02:17 PM »
Awesome!
I wish I had these in a fortune file...

Reminds me of the adage I read on LinuxCommand.org:
I once heard an author remark that when you are a child you use a computer by looking at the pictures. When you grow up, you learn to read and write. Welcome to Computer Literacy 101. Now let's get to work.

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Re: [shell-fu]$
« Reply #3 on: April 16, 2008, 04:57 PM »
Awesome!
I wish I had these in a fortune file...

Try this instead of calling fortune:
links -dump "http://www.shell-fu.org/lister.php?random" | grep -A 100 -- ----