I’ve been using *nix systems for quite a while. But there are a few commands that I somehow overlooked and I wish I’d discovered years earlier. 1. man ascii This prints out the ascii tables in octal, hexadeciamal and decimal. I can’t believe I didn’t know about this one until a month ago. I’d always resorted to googling for the tables. This is much more convenient. ASCII(7) BSD Miscellaneous Infor
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