8 Linux Commands Every Developer Should Know

Every developer, at some point in their career, will find themselves looking for some information on a Linux* box. I don't claim to be an expert, in fact, I claim to be very under-skilled when it comes to linux command line mastery. However, with the following 8 commands I can get pretty much anything I need, done. note: There are extensive documents on each of the following commands. This blog post is not meant to show the exhaustive features of any of the commands. Instead, this is a blog post that shows my most common usages of my most commonly used commands. If you don't know linux commands well, and you find yourself needing to grab some data, this blog post might give you a bit of guidance. Let's start with some sample documents. Let's assume that I have 2 files showing orders that are being placed with a third party and the responses the third party sends. order.out...

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