Sorted by votes: <a href="https://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/browse/sort-by-votes" rel="nofollow">https://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/browse/sort-by-votes</a><p>Filter option is nice too, here's top `awk` commands: <a href="https://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/matching/awk/YXdr/sort-by-votes" rel="nofollow">https://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/matching/awk/YXdr/sor...</a> (expected removing duplicates to be #1 instead of #3)<p>There are comments too, but some are filled with spam.<p>See also:<p>* <a href="http://www.compciv.org/unix-tools/" rel="nofollow">http://www.compciv.org/unix-tools/</a><p>* <a href="https://github.com/jlevy/the-art-of-command-line">https://github.com/jlevy/the-art-of-command-line</a><p>* <a href="https://github.com/learnbyexample/scripting_course#ebooks">https://github.com/learnbyexample/scripting_course#ebooks</a> (my books on grep/sed/awk/perl/ruby/coreutils/etc - free to read online)
I can't stop laughing at the name of the website: I personally would have ended it with "foo" rather that something that can be pronounced "f you" but I'm bookmarking this one for regular reference!
In case anyone misses it, click the titles and you'll see alternatives.<p>For example the second most popular one is to serve a directory and the alternatives show the Python3 way of doing it.<p><a href="https://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/71/serve-current-directory-tree-at-httphostname8000" rel="nofollow">https://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/71/serve-current...</a>
For the simple tar command, I've read somewhere that it's best to not encode the output using the tar command itself (i.e. tar -cvf blah; zip blah instead of tar -cvzf blah), but I'm not sure what the reasoning is. Has anyone else heard this? Something to do with passing files between systems that may not the right encoding software maybe?
This is amazing, "Watch Star Wars via telnet": <a href="https://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/1713/watch-star-wars-via-telnet" rel="nofollow">https://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/1713/watch-star-...</a>
Nice work, but I wonder if websites like this will not become obsolete soon. In most cases I can get the same result with ChatGPT, where I can also ask followup questions.