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Discussion on: Helpful Terminal Commands for Beginners!

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malik

I didn’t know about the search and replace functionality of !!

That is going to be extreeeemely useful for me personally haha, thank you for sharing!

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Thomas H Jones II

Yeah. BASH is pretty much "take the best from KSH93 and TCSH ...plus, in recent years, a few others". So, it has a lot of features in it. Used to be, when I was tutoring junior systems administrators, all they really new about was filec. Most were astounded when I'd show them all of the wonders of BASH ...even though my preferred shell was still KSH.

Bash is kind of to shells what English is to language. =)