# Efficient Linux at the Command Line **Published by:** [differui](https://paragraph.com/@binrui/) **Published on:** 2023-03-15 **URL:** https://paragraph.com/@binrui/efficient-linux-at-the-command-line ## Content Combining Commands# cut as fragments and retrive the second fragment cut -f2 something.txt # cut by delimiter , and retrive the first fragment cut -d, -f1 # print deplicate files md5 *.png | cut -d= -f2 | uniq -c | sort -nr | grep -v " 1" Introducing the Shell# disable $, print verbatim echo '$HOME' # $ is working echo "$HOME" Rerunning Commands# the final word command !$ # the final arguments command !* # patch on previous command ^original^replacement # edit in vim mode set -o vim Cruising the Filesystem ## Publication Information - [differui](https://paragraph.com/@binrui/): Publication homepage - [All Posts](https://paragraph.com/@binrui/): More posts from this publication - [RSS Feed](https://api.paragraph.com/blogs/rss/@binrui): Subscribe to updates - [Twitter](https://twitter.com/differui): Follow on Twitter