Best Unix Tricks?
jacquesm: It's a great kill-ur unix tip but you should never fall for it:    :(){ :|:& };

Oh, the temptation... if you're thinking of cutting & pasting that into the shell of your machine google for 'bash fork bomb' first, I've left off the final ':' to set it off.Anyway, on a more serious note, after an installation procedure that was a lot of work, if you want to document the whole thing use:    history | cut -d ' ' -f 5-

To give you all the commands you executed in the last little while, cut & paste that and you have a pretty good start for a how-to.It's not a 'great killer unix tip', but it works for me.Edit: Another one just came to mind, the ps command has a very useful option that is quite undervalued imo:    ps ax --forest