useful commands in the unix world part 1

This list will be sporadically updated...

history | awk '{print $2}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head

file /path/to/file

Some links:

• awk tutorial
  http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~dholland/computers/awk.html


• http://cocoon.cs.odu.edu/cocoon/~cs252/open/unix/section-2.3.html#piping


• http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-tips.en.html