--- title: 10 simple Linux tips which save 50% of my time in the... description: Discover 10 simple Linux tips to save time in the command line and work efficiently in UNIX. Learn how to execute previous commands quickly, repeat the last... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/10-simple-linux-tips-which-save-50-of-my-time-in-the-command-line-jkanzpogi twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: 10 simple Linux tips which save 50% of my time in the command line | daily.dev og:description: Discover 10 simple Linux tips to save time in the command line and work efficiently in UNIX. Learn how to execute previous commands quickly, repeat the last... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/10-simple-linux-tips-which-save-50-of-my-time-in-the-command-line-jkanzpogi og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/jKAnzPogi.png og:image:alt: 10 simple Linux tips which save 50% of my time in the command line og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # 10 simple Linux tips which save 50% of my time in the command line **[Community Picks](https://daily.dev/sources/community)** · 8 min read · 163 upvotes · 6 comments ## Summary Discover 10 simple Linux tips to save time in the command line and work efficiently in UNIX. Learn how to execute previous commands quickly, repeat the last command, use history to find frequently used commands, apply regular expressions in grep and find, use aliases, and more. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@dalton02** · 15 upvotes > Another very useful command that saves me a lot of time is "Ctrl+K" for deleting the entire command that comes after the cursor, and "Ctrl+A" to go to the beginning of the command **@swarraaa** · 0 upvotes > Useful. Thanks for sharing! **@jsmooth** · 0 upvotes > this is the kind of content I joined for, I should know it but you get so used to your patterns you don't look this up. --- Tags: [#linux](https://daily.dev/tags/linux), [#productivity](https://daily.dev/tags/productivity), [#shell](https://daily.dev/tags/shell), [#bash](https://daily.dev/tags/bash), [#unix](https://daily.dev/tags/unix) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/10-simple-linux-tips-which-save-50-of-my-time-in-the-command-line-jkanzpogi) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"10 simple Linux tips which save 50% of my time in the command line","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/10-simple-linux-tips-which-save-50-of-my-time-in-the-command-line-jkanzpogi","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/10-simple-linux-tips-which-save-50-of-my-time-in-the-command-line-jkanzpogi"},"datePublished":"2024-05-08T11:11:14.108Z","dateModified":"2024-05-09T08:22:04.995Z","description":"Discover 10 simple Linux tips to save time in the command line and work efficiently in UNIX. 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