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Julia Evans

@b0rk.jvns.ca

every core unix command I use

## basic file stuff

touch - create file
mkdir - create directory
cp - copy
mv - move
rm - delete
ln - create symlink
ls - list directory

## how big is it
wc - word count
du - file size in bytes
df - filesystem usage

## slice & dice files
sed - replace regex
tr - replace character
grep - search file
cut - get column
awk - get column (+ more)
sort - sort lines
uniq - unique lines
head - first 10 lines
tail - last 10 lines

## filesystems
mount - mount a filesystem
umount - unmount
dd - copy data to a disk

## manage processes
ps - list processes
lsof - list open files
kill - send a signal
pkill - fancy `kill`
top - who's using CPU?
uptime - time since reboot

## permissions
chown - change owner
chmod - change permissions

## time stuff
time - measure runtime
date - current time
sleep - wait X seconds
cal - cute calendar

## useful with pipes
less - scroll text
cat - print file contents
tee - stdin -> file + stdout
xargs - run cmd for each line
find - find files by name

## compression
tar - make/extract tar files
gzip - compress with gzip
gunzip - decompress
zip - compress with zip
unzip - decompress

## & more
which - find cmd on PATH
man - read man page
crontab - edit crontab
md5sum - calculate md5sum
diff - diff files

April 16, 2025 at 6:34 PM

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Joe Ura

@joeura.bsky.social

If the government can pay a foreign state to imprison you and, in so doing, remove you from the protection of US law, the Constitution is worthless.

April 13, 2025 at 12:49 AM

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Lance McDonald

@manfightdragon.bsky.social

On February 21st, 2021, I created and released a patch for Bloodborne which makes the game run at 60fps. Today I received a DMCA takedown notification on behalf of Sony Interactive Entertainment asking that I remove links to the patch I posted on the internet, so I've now done so

January 31, 2025 at 3:22 PM