Comments on: 5 Fun & Useful Terminal Commands You Can Use More Than Once [Mac & Linux]

By: Random Apps Inc

Random Apps Inc — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 17:58:00 +0000

YES! Vi and pico are both awesome!!!

By: rakete

rakete — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 10:09:00 +0000

You missed the numer 1 classic fun command for unix/linux boxes:

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P.S: Don’t run any command, if you don’t know what it is doing! Especially this one! ;)

btw: the espeak command is installed by default in ubuntu and other Debian distros, and in Linux bash, you can navigate to your home folder by simply typing in cd, too. Not sure what you guys are doing wrong.

By: Shawn Boyle

Shawn Boyle — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 18:44:00 +0000

A common command I use is top. Screen is another good one. Lastly my favorite is vi.

By: Chankey Pathak

Chankey Pathak — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 17:36:00 +0000

Okay, got it :P

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 17:33:00 +0000

I don’t understand. What do you mean when you say that, “After installation, espeak is local to the machine and needs no external
resources?” Every program is local to the machine after installation. The default voices in OS X are also local to the machine.

By: Gary Bishop

Gary Bishop — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 17:21:00 +0000

After installation, espeak is local to the machine and needs no external
resources. The only question is when it gets installed. Linux typically does
not install everything initially. One could certainly build a distribution
that did install everything.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 16:06:00 +0000

Being in the repository is not the same. Built-in has to be unable to be taken away. A repository can go down at any time. Not that it will, but it’s a possibility and then espeak will be inaccessible.

I’ll see if I can edit it, though, since openSSH is still on there. It’s still a CL tool and I never said anything has to be built-in to qualify for the list.

By: Gary Bishop

Gary Bishop — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 12:17:00 +0000

Built-in is a bit different in Linux. Everything is, in a sense, built-in.
On the other hand, everything is optional. espeak is in the standard
repositories for most distributions of Linux. So, on ubuntu I simply go to
the package manager and install it.

By: Lazza

Lazza — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 11:10:00 +0000

I’m not sure, it probably depends on the distro. I’m using Ubuntu 11.04 and I *believe* it was already there.
The use is something like:
echo “Hello world” | espeak

By: Nutz321

Nutz321 — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 11:07:00 +0000

I didn’t know that, thanks! But it seems that espeak is not built-in. Is this true?

By: Nutz321

Nutz321 — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 11:06:00 +0000

Ah, my bad! Thanks!

By: Nutz321

Nutz321 — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 11:02:00 +0000

The say command can be fun, especially in combination with SSH ;). I’m posting this from school, so I can’t login, but I’m the OP.

By: Chankey Pathak

Chankey Pathak — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 03:01:00 +0000

I didn’t get why have you put “Fun” in the title of the post?

By: Lazza

Lazza — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 09:35:00 +0000

“With Linux, you must put the two locations in single quotes.”
You need them only when the path contains spaces. :)

By: irtigor

irtigor — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 02:04:00 +0000

mv ~/{Desktop/sourcename,Documents/destinationname}.txt #faster to type