Comments on: Top Ten (10) Linux Commands For Beginners https://webrewrite.com/top-ten-most-useful-linux-terminal-commands-for-beginners/ Technology Blog Where You Find Programming Tips and Tricks Sun, 30 Nov 2014 13:01:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Lars Moelleken https://webrewrite.com/top-ten-most-useful-linux-terminal-commands-for-beginners/#comment-385 Sun, 30 Nov 2014 13:01:00 +0000 http://webrewrite.com/?p=276#comment-385 1.) instead of “find” you can also use “locate” it’s much faster, because it will search in a db (so run “sudo updatedb” to update this file-database, there is also a cron in the background for this)

2.) instead of “grep” take a look at “ack” and at the settings of the tool (e.g.: https://github.com/voku/dotfiles/blob/master/.ackrc)

3.) instead of “ps + grep + kill” you can also use “pkill” and “pgrep” (there is also autocompletion for this -> apt-get install bash-completion)

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