Nifty commands
Thursday, January 3rd, 2008So, helping someone with an issue earlier (amarok had crashed and they couldn’t kill it properly), I told them to issue the following command
ps x | awk '/amarok/ {print $1}' | xargs kill -9
Now, this is a command I use a lot to kill programs that are being evil (generally, I use it to kill evolution!)
But the comment came back “That’s nifty!”
So I’ve got to ask, what are your favourite “nifty” commands? and what do they do?
<edit> So far, within 5 mins of posting this, I’ve had 2 people ask why I don’t just use killall
mez@apathy:~$ ps x -ocommand | grep [e]vo evolution /usr/lib/evolution/evolution-data-server-1.12 <snip> /usr/lib/evolution/2.12/evolution-exchange-storage <snip>