July 13th, 2008 mysurface
top command provides a dynamic real-time view of a running system. It can display system summary information as well as a list of tasks currently being managed by the Linux kernel. But if you want get something more specific, you must play some tricks on it. For example, I want a clean view of top [...]
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October 27th, 2007 mysurface
Dear command line ninjas, Mr CLI and keyboard pianist:
What is your regular command you use? I am sure you must thinking of ls and cd. Yeah, they are common for every users, but how about the rest of them? I have construct a combos of commands to help you identify your top ten linux command. [...]
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November 1st, 2006 toydi
Given a list of text lines in a file, to display the first 10 lines:
head foo.txt
To display the last 10 lines:
tail foo.txt
Try -n option to specify the number of lines to display:
tail -n3 foo.txt # the last 3 lines
head -n4 foo.txt # the first 4 lines
And don’t forget, the ‘+’ in tail [...]
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