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| Newer page: | version 8 | Last edited on Wednesday, November 27, 2002 12:10:22 pm | by DanielLawson | Revert |
| Older page: | version 7 | Last edited on Tuesday, November 26, 2002 7:51:10 pm | by JohnMcPherson | Revert |
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| wc(1) | Word Count
''Since ls(1) is such an often-used and occasionally mistyped command, there's an amusing little program '[sl|http://gar.lnx-bbc.org/cvs/gar/games/sl/]' which does an animated Steam Loco.. It comes with freeBSD but there's probably a Linux port if you're really interested. - zcat'' (sl is in debian. But if you're like me the novelty will wear off pretty quickly as you can't use your terminal for a few seconds until the Steam Locomotive has gone across it).
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+The following command will list all TwoLetterCommands on your system:
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+ find {,/usr}/{,s}bin -type f | grep "/..$"
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+It looks in /bin, /usr/bin, /sbin, /usr/sbin for all files which have two letters in their name. On my Debian Woody system there are a number of ones not listed above, which are mainly just improved tools: lc is an improved wc, gw is a gnome version of 'w' (so thats a OneLetterCommand really... ;)
