tips & tricks .. beyond the manuals.

[pinguin killer]

For me it would be interesting to know some not obvious console tricks.

[pinguin killer]

For example .. when somebody want to copy localy big,fat file it's not comfortable that cp doesn't show any progress information. So, long time ago i use something like "watch du -hs target" or "watch ls -1sh". But i didn't like it. Then i found that "rsync --progress" can do the job.