The Importance of Command Line

I understand, we are so much used to GUI that we almost forget the CLI. Remembering all those commands with different options seems like a big hassle. GUI has all the buttons, click on it and job done. But here we miss one part the power of CLI. If used wisely, they can speed up your working many fold.

Take an example, you want to close a tab in firefox. Take your mouse to cross button and than click or simply say CTRL-w. Interesting, right. Linux has got a really powerful shell. You can almost write a program there. See the following code -

$ for f in *.c
> do cp -p $f OLD_$f
> done

It will find every filename ending with .c in the current directory and makes a copy with OLD_ preceding the filename.

Read this to know the power of CLI. If the link asks you to register, than continue reading the blog. I have dumped the contents in the post.

Firefox plug-ins

As you all know, Firefox is the fastest growing browser and the most powerful browser too. The Firefox 2.0 saw 1.5 millions download within 24 hours, whereas firefox 3.0 witnessed massive 8 millions download in 24 hours. It is really amazing when the estimation was 3 millions download.

Now, you would be wondering that why it is so powerful and popular. First look and you say, it looks so normal. There are two cool features in firefox, one is you type in address bar and it will search for substring not for the entire string. Second, it can start searching on page as you start typing. Cool, but you need to enable this option.

The real power of firefox is the plug-ins which makes it outstanding browser from a normal browser. I would be listing here most popular plug-ins for firefox. I will keep updating the list time to time, so keep an eye on this post.

Shortcut and commands for newbies

Here are few shortcut and commands for newbies. Click here to read. They will be very useful in your day to day life and cap really speed up your working.


-Mukesh