I must confess. I have bad command line habits! I make directories and subdirectories, one directory at a time… Meaning, I make a directory then cd to that then make a subdirectory from it. However, I learned today that I don’t have to do that. Thanks to the article: Learn 10 good UNIX usage habits. It lists down the bad habits and the good ones.
Part of how the bad command line habits have been formed when I think about the way it is on the graphical user interface, like what steps I have to take. These days I’ve been mainly reliant on Gnome so I have lost practice using the command line.
Another snippet from the article:
Stop piping cats
A basic-but-common grep usage error involves piping the output of cat to grep to search the contents of a single file. This is absolutely unnecessary and a waste of time, […]

Full story: Clair