johan's Journal

It just occurred to me that one meaningful part of learning to use Unix's power is learning the depth of a few important commands. Foremost is the shell (for example, regex filename expansion is and very powerful in just about all shells). Also important are find, ls and ps, which all have copious options.

Like many Unix novices, i think often, when i had a new goal to accomplish, i tended to look for a new command, when an "old" command might have been the shortest or most efficient path to solution.