Bash Command Line Pro Tips

by Jason Cannon

As someone that has used the Bash shell almost daily for over 15 years, I've accumulated several command line "tricks" that have saved me time and frustration. Bash Command Line Pro Tips is a collection of techniques that you can put to use right away to increase your efficiency at the command line.


Here is what you will learn by reading Bash Command Line Pro


* How to use tab completion
* How to quickly change to the previous directory
* Ways to reuse the last item from the previous command line
* How to rerun a command that starts with a given string
* What command substitution is and how to put it to good use
* How to use a for loop right from the command line
* How to rerun the previous command with Superuser privileges
* Rerun the previous command while substituting a string
* How to recall a word on the same command line
* How to fix typos and shorten lengthy commands with aliases

Genres: Technology, Computers, Reference, Software, Ebooks, Programming

ebook

First published May 4, 2014

Reviews

[César Bustíos]

I found this little one for free on Amazon Kindle. Each tip is concise and full of examples. Most of them are really time-savers. Use them wisely!

[Ajaneesh Rajashekharaiah]

Good quick read

Read this on my phone. The formatting was an issue. But excellent time saving tips. Please add more tips to this. You can cover basics of awk, sed, perl, cut, try, find, grep etc which we usually pipe on the command line to extract information from large files quickly. Not quite bash, I agree but the logical next step.

[V. Subhash]

Very useful for Linux terminal users

I have read this book several times hoping to memorize the tips. By the time, I get back to my terminal, I forget the codes and the tablet is switched off. These tips will save time by avoiding repetitious activities. Only by practice can you remember them.

[Daniel Burns]

This is another book by Jason Cannon. Very well written for the Linux users. A must have book for your Bash Command Line for Linux. Very easy to follow with many examples. This book will enhance your knowledge using Linux.

[Amjad Abdullah]

Simple, short, and straightforward. Oh.. useful also :)

[Balaji Sriraman]

Good

Though some of the tips are very obvious, some are really good. Saves our time a lot and that's what we need in today's world!

[Ramnath]

Goodt tips on bash

Short book with Good tips on bash.liked it.
Short book with Good tips on bash.liked it.
Short book with Good tips on bash.liked it.

[Guru]

If free worth reading

Only 10 tips are there. Out of them 8 were not really tips. Half of the book is advertising of other courses and books

[Taylor Coomer]

Basics but good

Mostly basics as the book title describes, but it is very detailed and provides some useful examples. Great tips and reference!

[Surattikorn]

- Good tips.
- Useful for beginners.

[David]

Usefull 10 shell tips but the book have more dedicated pages to talk about other resources than tips

[Lewis]

A short, but nontheless informative tips book for Bash.

This book has a bunch of tips, mainly involving speeding up typing commands. It's free, so if you want some tips, have a eead!

[Eugenia]

Lavoro con la shell da anni, ma alcune di queste cose mi mancavano :)

[Likhit Siriarayapan]

Easy to read with provided examples. Even some tips are already khown, but I also got some tips from this free book. Recommend for new Linux users.

[Ganesh Chandra]

Simple and useful

Simple tricks which will come very handy for Linux developers.

Wish author had covered more tips for intermediate level developers.

[Nicole Murillo]

a quick book with advanced tips

Quite short and to the point showing some interesting tips when using the cli in Linux, works for bash and zsh shells.

[Myron B]

I have been a programmer for many years, and this too has helped me to adapt to the Linux version of programming. It is good to have read this, and it has helped me in many ways.