<story><title>Time-saving tips for Linux</title><url>http://www.quora.com/Linux/What-are-some-time-saving-tips-that-every-Linux-user-should-know</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>jrockway</author><text>I don&apos;t think these tips are that great.  Some random criticisms:&lt;p&gt;ifconfig is deprecated (use &quot;ip&quot; instead).&lt;p&gt;There is not much value in knowing vim if you know Emacs.  If you want to edit something in your terminal, well, emacsclient -t to your Emacs session.  Or use mg, which is a very fast and light Emacs workalike -- just enough for editing your /etc/apt/sources.list to get Emacs installed :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mattdeboard</author><text>You don&apos;t think these tip are that great &lt;i&gt;for you&lt;/i&gt;. But they&apos;re not written for Unix command-line ninjas. They&apos;re written for average users (like me) who run Ubuntu or some other flavor of Linux and just use the basic commands. I bookmarked the tips and will definitely be revisiting them regularly to improve my command line fu.&lt;p&gt;Sorry you didn&apos;t get anything out of it, but I suspect you don&apos;t need tips like &quot;learn vim&quot; and &quot;be familiar with chown&quot;.</text></comment>
<story><title>Time-saving tips for Linux</title><url>http://www.quora.com/Linux/What-are-some-time-saving-tips-that-every-Linux-user-should-know</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>jrockway</author><text>I don&apos;t think these tips are that great.  Some random criticisms:&lt;p&gt;ifconfig is deprecated (use &quot;ip&quot; instead).&lt;p&gt;There is not much value in knowing vim if you know Emacs.  If you want to edit something in your terminal, well, emacsclient -t to your Emacs session.  Or use mg, which is a very fast and light Emacs workalike -- just enough for editing your /etc/apt/sources.list to get Emacs installed :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jrussbowman</author><text>Functionally as a sysadmin, I&apos;ve heard ifconfig is deprecated before yet I&apos;ve never used ip. just &apos;ifconfig&apos; on the command line tells me everything I need to know about what interfaces are up, their status and basic info.&lt;p&gt;&apos;ip&apos; just gives me the standard syntax description.&lt;p&gt;The power of the basic shell is that there&apos;s usually a few hundred ways to skin a cat. And just because there&apos;s documentation saying something is deprecated as often as not it&apos;s still so widely used that in practice, it&apos;s not.</text></comment>