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Every new command is wrapped in a tweet and posted to Twitter. Following the stream is a great way of staying abreast of the latest commands. For the more discerning, there are Twitter accounts for commands that get a minimum of 3 and 10 votes - that way only the great commands get tweeted.
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After you execute a command (or shell script) in the background using
&, if you logout from the session, the command will get killed. To avoid
that, you should use nohup as shown below.
Uniq command is mostly used in combination with sort command, as
uniq removes duplicates only from a sorted file. i.e In order for uniq to
work, all the duplicate entries should be in the adjacent lines.
This will be very helpful when you are debugging shell scripts, where
you don?t want to display the echo statement and interested in only
looking at the error messages. Similarly use 2> to supress error messages
Sometimes it is necessary to view debug messages to troubleshoot any
SSH connection issues. pass -v (lowercase v) option to the ssh as shown
below to view the ssh debug messages.