Tips & Tricks

Shell-scripts, cron-jobs, sed und a lot more - a short abstract of helpful tips & tricks for more efficient working with the Linux console.

Multiplicity

How to execute often used commands on more than one file. read on ...

replace strings more than once

How to replace strings in more than one file at once. read on ...

repair corrupt tar archives

An adventure story on howto repair corrupt tar archives read on ...

exclude files from wildcard matches

How to exclude files from being matched against a bash wildcard read on ...