We must confess that we are not as fond of the Linux command line as some Linux users — we’ll take a good GUI, and a mouse over a keyboard any time we can. But for those that love working at the Linux command prompt (and that probably don’t make nearly as many typos as we do), we thought you might appreciate this series from the catonmat blog:

• Top Ten One-Liners from CommandLineFu Explained
• The Next Ten One-Liners from CommandLineFu Explained
• Another Ten One-Liners from CommandLineFu Explained
• Yet Another Ten One-Liners from CommandLineFu Explained

Or perhaps you’d prefer this series:

• Bash One-Liners Explained, Part I: Working with files
• Bash One-Liners Explained, Part II: Working with strings
• Bash One-Liners Explained, Part III: All about redirections
• Bash One-Liners Explained, Part IV: Working with history
• Bash One-Liners Explained, Part V: Navigating around

Or maybe you’d like to see one-liners covering Awk, Sed, or Perl:

• Famous Awk One-Liners Explained, Part I: File Spacing, Numbering and Calculations
• Famous Awk One-Liners Explained, Part II: Text Conversion and Substitution
• Famous Awk One-Liners Explained, Part III: Selective Printing and Deleting of Certain Lines
• Update on Famous Awk One-Liners Explained: String and Array Creation

 

• Famous Perl One-Liners Explained, Part I: File Spacing
• Famous Perl One-Liners Explained, Part II: Line Numbering
• Famous Perl One-Liners Explained, Part III: Calculations
• Famous Perl One-Liners Explained, Part IV: String and Array Creation
• Famous Perl One-Liners Explained, Part V: Text conversion and substitution
• Famous Perl One-Liners Explained, Part VI: Selective printing and deleting of lines
• Famous Perl One-Liners Explained, Part VII: Handy Regular Expressions
• Announcing perl1line.txt – Collection of Handy Perl Scripts

 

• Famous Sed One-Liners Explained, Part I: File Spacing, Numbering and Text Conversion and Substitution
• Famous Sed One-Liners Explained, Part II: Selective Printing of Certain Lines
• Famous Sed One-Liners Explained, Part III: Selective Deletion of Certain Lines and Special Applications

Author Peteris Krumins used these articles as the starting points for his e-books. In addition to the e-books listed there, it appears that he has authored this paperback edition that can be purchased from Amazon (this is an affiliate link, so if you buy it from here we’ll get a small commission):

Perl One-Liners: 130 Programs That Get Things Done