Practical tips & tricks in the Linux shell —27 April 2013

I put together this simple presentation about a few simple but very effective practical tips that should make you lightning fast on the command line. I use these literally every minute I spend in the shell. All the tips should work in Linux, UNIX, BSD and similar.

https://speakerdeck.com/janosgyerik/time-saving-tricks-on-the-command-line

• I used many tips from Zach Holman’s blog to “design” the slides.

• I created the presentation using Google Docs, but it was not really a great experience:

  • The dotted green line you see under headings is not intentional, it appears only after exporting to PDF. I don’t know why. I would prefer it without the line as shown correctly in https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/13N06QfsemvTFiQLF5nC-eatlktmj5DMFAzxexwJ8TgA/pub?start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000”, but I want to use Speaker Deck as it is not blocked at my workplace and has a better WordPress plugin.
  • The JavaScript seems to go crazy in the presentation editor. The longer I use it, the heavier it gets, until I do a clean fresh reload.
• I used the Speaker Deck Embed plugin to embed the presentation here. Oh and Speaker Deck is really awesome.