Ask HN: What are your top most useful Unix commands?

kill lets you send any signal to a process you have control over. Corresponding signal handlers allow a wide range of behavior changes.

ls, find, grep, tar, cpio<p>But in truth, it&#x27;s the bash scripting &#x27;glue&#x27; that holds everything together.

the semicolon &quot;;&quot; for chaining commands<p>ls -l<p>the &quot;alias&quot; command in a file for setting up quick-commands

grep, find, tail -f (useful to look at log files as they update)<p>Extras: sort, uniq, sed, sftp, apropos, man

top<p>jk, but also not.<p>w !sudo tee % in vim, even tho that&#x27;s not really directly a unix thing?

history | grep &lt;command halfway remember using&gt;

dirs -v pushd popd

cd pwd ls

cut, awk, sed, comm, grep

git

emacs&amp;

find, grep

ls

time cat