Effective bash shorthand - Eric Wendelin’s Blog. Let me tell you how to maximize your productivity on the Bourne Again SHell while minimizing your effort. bash has a ton of tricks and shortcuts that allow you to command it with little effort, and I intend to show you the features that help me day in and day out.
Today I’m going to explain the use of features like history, brace and file expansion, and other tricks by example and give you references for later. Master your history Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it. Moving a process to another terminal via reddit.com. The TTY demystified. Real teletypes in the 1940s.
The TTY subsystem is central to the design of Linux, and UNIX in general. Unfortunately, its importance is often overlooked, and it is difficult to find good introductory articles about it. I believe that a basic understanding of TTYs in Linux is essential for the developer and the advanced user. Beware, though: What you are about to see is not particularly elegant.