Most powerful examples of Unix commands or scripts every programmer should know

Question

There are many things that all programmers should know, but I am particularly interested in the Unix/Linux commands that we should all know. For accomplishing tasks that we may

Answer 1

• grep
• awk
• sed
• perl
• find

A lot of Unix power comes from its ability to manipulate text files and filter data. Of course, you can get all of these commands for Windows. They are just not native in the OS, like they are in Unix.

and the ability to chain commands together with pipes etc. This can create extremely powerful single lines of commands from simple functions.