The 3 most ingenious UNIX line commands are ...?

[HP Education_2]

These days, everybody talks menu options. But UNIX has line commands, with its
own ingenious options. Let's hear about your favorites.

[Dan Henderson_4]

This is my favorite!

echo Mhbqnrnes Stbjr | tr [a-y] [b-z]

[Kirk Gardner_1]

Here's mine:

[ `basename $SHELL` = "ksh" ] && PS1=`uname -n`:`id -un`:'$PWD'"> " ; export
PS1

[Sanjay D_1]

My list

1. fsck
2. find
3. grep

Sanjay d

[karategal24]

make war

make sense

lost

echo '[q]sa[ln0=aln256%Pln256/snlbx]sb3135071790101768542287
578439snlbxq'|dc

:-)

[brain_2]

excellent!

[Narender Reddy]

1)bdf
2)dmesg
3)swapinfo

[Joe Black_4]

1. xargs
2. find
3. man :)

[Bhuwan Pandey]

top, ps -ef|more, bdf

[a unix person]

I like this one for searching for strings in files

e.g. you are not sure which startup files contain the word
network

find /dirname -type f -exec grep -il network {} \;


simple but very useful