Ten Linux Commands Every Developer Should Know

Okay, Top Tens are another one of my favorite things to blog about. Normally, I write my own top ten, but today I wanted to link to some others similar posts, mainly because top tens are so common, and I know so little about Linux.

First up – Jason Gilmore. I don’t know if I agree with all of these; I think I use a few others more frequently, but this is a good collection.

Here are twenty great system monitoring commands.

And over here you can find, oddly enough, 57 linux tips for geeks, with a follow-up article containing dozens more linux tips.

How to view tar gzip contents without decompressing it

Tar files (.tar) are based on the old “tape archive” format. So if you think of how a program would write files to tape, one at a time, in order, .tar files do the same thing, so they don’t have a table of contents. However, there are some options that let you scan the .tar or other archive file and write the output to stdout or a file.

This forum has a pretty good discussion on this topic.