[PLUG] Re: strange ln -s behavior

[Paul Heinlein]

On Fri, 29 Jun 2007, Rogan Creswick wrote:

> I really can't believe I've been using bash for so many years, and 
> never knew about that!

I think that happens to all of us. I'd been using bash for a long time 
before I saw some use Ctrl-R to search shell history. It beat "history | grep" hands down. :-)

The really cool tricks, the ones we completely integrate into our 
daily work, are the easiest to forget about. They're just part of the 
landscape.

A couple weeks ago, I was doing some shell operations with a colleague 
looking over my shoulder. I crafted a longish command, but then 
remembered that I had to complete a different command first. So I 
typed Ctrl-A to get to the beginning of the line, prefixed it with a 
#, and pressed Enter. I did the prerequisite command. Then I 
up-arrowed a couple times, removed the #, and ran the long command.

My colleague just said, "I never thought to comment out an interactive 
shell command." It was so ingrained in my work habits, however, that 
it never occured to me to pass it along as a tip. Wierd, Unix is. :-)

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