[PLUG] An obscure (at least to me) useful tool

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Thu May 23 14:26:21 UTC 2019


On Thu, 23 May 2019, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:

> Now, the suggestion, all people new to "unix" in any since of that word
> should read the AT&T V7 manual sections 1 and 8, those commands are pretty
> much still here, and that set of options is also pretty much every place.
> You may find some real nuggets you did not know existed, AND you may come
> to realize how much you can actually do with a very small set of commands.

When I was learning linux more than 20 years ago Eric Harrison explained it
to me: "Linux is easy because it has very simple tools, each doing only one
thing well. However, there are thousands of little tools."

And I keep discovering them when I need them. :-)

Rich




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