By: Leslie P. Polzer
My working day includes a variety of tasks, and most of them take place on the command line, because that approach enables me to do things in the most efficient way. But you can also waste a lot of time on the command line if you don’t know what utilities will give you what you need quickly. Here’s an introduction to the most important tools I use every day.
zsh
The GNU Bourne Again Shell, bash, is the command line interpreter traditionally associated with Linux systems, and most GNU/Linux systems ship it as default. While it has considerably improved in terms of comfort, it stands behind the powerful Z Shell, which you can use as a superset of the Bourne Again Shell.
http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/02/12/1550251
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