Random Linux Tips

ps

ps aux|grep ap\\ache

will show just the apache processes and not grep itself because:

1. Your shell removes one \ and passes grep ap\ache
2. ps lists the grep as grep ap\ache
3. grep reads \a as a since a isn't special and looks for "apache" but doesn't pick up the line that has "grep ap\ache" in it since that doesn't match.

info pages

Given the tendancy to provide crap manpages and better info pages, you might want to try pinfo instead of just the plain info program to view them. pinfo can view manpages as well and has lynx like keys. It highlights links to other manpages/info pages and is a lot easier to use than info.

uz/lz

uz and lz are really useful for allowing you to get on with your life and just view archives while they remember how to do it for bzipped archives, gzipped archives, rpms, debs, arc, arj, rar, lha and more (providing you have the relevant utilities installed).

See http://hjb-net.de/download/lz_e.html to get them.

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