[Leaplist] 10 good linux habbits to adopt

[Austin Denyer (Ozz)]

On Sat, 16 Dec 2006 17:46:08 -0500, Jim Hartley <xjimh at cfl.rr.com>
wrote:
>
> This sort of thing should be equally applicable to Linux, or AIX, or 
> *BSD, or pretty much any other *ix. But a lot of the stuff seemed a bit 
> on the nit-picking side, and overly concerned with execution efficiency. 
> Unless you're running *ix on a MITS Altair or your TV remote control, 
> you'll never notice the difference. And I doubt I would be typing any of 
> those combined commands in directly - if I'm doing it once I'll do it 
> one command at a time, and if I'm doing it a lot I'll probably write a 
> shell script.

Some of it does come in handy though.  For example, if you have a large
application to compile:

./configure && make && make install

and go grab a coffee.

Want to make sure you're apt-get'ing the kernel headers that match
your running kernel?

apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r` 

Little tricks like that can save you a lot of time.

> So IMHO it's not bad stuff, just kind of irrelevant. You may find a gem 
> or two that works for your command line working style, or maybe not. Or 
> maybe you do most of your work using GUI tools  ...

What's a GUI?  #;-D

Seriously though, whilst GUIs are useful and certainly have their
place, once you know what you're doing the command line is just SO much
quicker.  Plus, how many people run X on a server - especially a
public-facing one.  If it's public-facing, I want as little as possible
running on it...

Regards,
Ozz.
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