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10 Cool Linux Tricks That Can Make Your Engineering Life Easy
And you get the admiration of your colleagues for free
Have you ever encountered a moment when you saw your colleague using some simple Linux commands for tasks that took you several keystrokes? And when you saw that you were like, “Wow! I didn’t know it could have been done so easily”.
In this article, I’ll show you some pro-Linux command tricks that will save you a lot of time and in some cases, plenty of frustration. Not only your friends or colleagues will ‘wow’ at you, but it will also make engineering life easy as you will need fewer keystrokes and even fewer mouse clicks.
Track everything on Your Terminal
During a busy debugging session, it is easy to forget what commands you ran, in what order you ran those commands, and the output/logs of those commands. You can always go back and check history, but it could become very complex very soon.
What if there was a tool that could record everything that you do on the terminal. And play it back when you need it.
Well, there is.
The script command in Linux is used to make typescript or record all the terminal activities. After executing the script command it starts recording…
