Recycle your typos Do you use control-c a lot? What about the backspace key? I have to admit that on the command line I'm a pretty sloopy typsit sloppy typist, but I've learned one trick which saves me thousands of keystrokes. Here it is: Esc # Why is that so helpful? First of all, it turns your mistyped line into a comment. More importantly, it saves the line into your shell history, so you can recall it later. A comment on your mistakes You might not have thought of putting comments on the command line. Many people don't put them into their... [More]

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