This is a neat trick to know and saves a lot of time:

1. Go to the beginning of the line where you want to start copying.
2. Make sure you are in the command mode. (Hit ESC).
3. Type “ma”. Which means, you are marking the spot with “a”.
4. Go to the …

Here is a nice tip on unix find..

$ find . cpio -pdumv /path/to/destination/dir

the files found by find are passed into cpio and it copies the files with the same permissions to the destination directory.

If you untar a package, and it makes a mess of your directory because the packager didn’t include the files in his tarball in a directory, you can use

$ rm `tar ftz package.tar.gz`

to quickly get rid of those cluttering files.

$ rm `tar ft package.tar`

does …