CLI is a good way to communicate with computers, and good communication needs some idioms, like natural languages. Here are idioms I usually use. I will describe them or add others later. Why don’t you share your idioms? :) Others Re: UNIX Command Idioms - (ひ)メモ Re: Re: UNIX Command Idioms - studio3104::Blog ps auxf ls -ltrh netstat -taopn tar xvf | cut | sort | uniq -c | sort -n rsync -avzn file