Modern shells support command-line editing for efficient recall and correction of commands. Command-line editing is more efficient than using the shell's history mechanism. Shells like KornShell, Bash ...

I wish I'd known these time-saving tweaks and tricks from the start.

Wow guess I pissed in your cheerio's, if the arrow key functionality happens to be a posix spec then color me wrong but that is something I have always equated to bash/zsh and linux shells in general ...

I remember the first time a friend of mine introduced me to Linux and showed me how I didn't need to type commands and path names fully—I could just start typing and use the Tab key to complete the ...

Us geeks mostly think of the command line as the best place for text manipulation. It's a natural with cat, grep and shell scripts. But although you can't necessarily view your results from within a ...