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More Linux Tips from IBM

There are good reasons so many Linux wizards like, no, LOVE the command line. If you know what you're doing, it can be way faster and easier to use than fiddling around with mouse pointers and windows and so on.

IBM is a great resource for Linux how-to (see IBM: Great stuff, hard to find), and here's another excellent article: UNIX tips: Learn 10 more good UNIX usage habits. Which is, in turn, a follow-on to the also excellent article UNIX tips: Learn 10 good UNIX usage habits by Michael Stutz.

Enjoy!

IBM: Great stuff, hard to find

If you want some good information about how to do things with Linux, IBM's Developer Works is a great place to start. IBM publishes a ton of incredibly good articles about how to do almost everything you'd want to do with Linux, and other stuff too.

Unfortunately, it's not always easy to find what you want without an exact link. For instance, there is this article, "Build intelligent, unattended scripts" by Martin Brown; it's in the System Administration Toolkit series, but the only obvious way to find all the other articles in the series is to use IBM's website search.

There's another good IBM series that isn't always easy to track down, Speaking UNIX. That link hooks to a search that returns 22 hits, including nine actual "Speaking UNIX" articles.

Oh well. It's still an excellent resource, one which I'm sure I'll be referring to often here.