# UNIX Tips **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [August 25, 2008, 9:01am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/unix-tips/53810 "2008-08-25T09:01:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![boxxa](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/boxxa/32/5045_2.png) [@boxxa](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boxxa)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2008, 9:01am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/unix-tips/53810/1 "2008-08-25T09:01:11Z")
> **[Learn 10 good UNIX usage habits](https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/aix/library/au-badunixhabits.html)** > > Adopt 10 good habits that improve your UNIX(R) command line productivity -- and break away from bad usage patterns in the process. This article takes you step-by-step through several good, but too often neglected, techniques for command-line... Some bad habits for Unix and also some nifty little little tricks to help you through some tasks. Most people have no use for this and some people might already know most of them but a decent read IMO. ---
**Author:** ![brent\_strong](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/brent_strong/32/7203_2.png) [@brent\_strong](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/brent_strong)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2008, 9:19am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/unix-tips/53810/2 "2008-08-25T09:19:46Z")
Definitely handy. I knew a good amount of those, but have fallen into “bad” usage… ---
**Author:** ![LZ1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@LZ1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LZ1)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2008, 9:22am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/unix-tips/53810/3 "2008-08-25T09:22:06Z")
Where was don’t login as root… ---
**Author:** ![boardjnky4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/96bed5/32.png) [@boardjnky4](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boardjnky4)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2008, 9:23am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/unix-tips/53810/4 "2008-08-25T09:23:03Z")
certainly are not bad tips, sorta useful sorta not ---
**Author:** ![boardjnky4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/96bed5/32.png) [@boardjnky4](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boardjnky4)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2008, 9:23am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/unix-tips/53810/5 "2008-08-25T09:23:37Z")
> [@LZ](#): > > Where was don’t login as root… in the “Unix for Dummies” handbook as rule #1 ---
**Author:** ![LZ1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@LZ1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LZ1)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2008, 9:23am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/unix-tips/53810/6 "2008-08-25T09:23:54Z")
I enjoy reading other peoples .bash\_history files and seeing stupid shit they do… ---
**Author:** ![boardjnky4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/96bed5/32.png) [@boardjnky4](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boardjnky4)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2008, 9:25am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/unix-tips/53810/7 "2008-08-25T09:25:44Z")
you know what really bugs me that a co-worker does? when he is cd’ng through directories, he always does individual cd’s random example: cd /home ls cd username ls cd Documents ls cd … ls cd Desktop god, just use the tab complete man!!! ---
**Author:** ![boxxa](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/boxxa/32/5045_2.png) [@boxxa](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boxxa)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2008, 9:40am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/unix-tips/53810/8 "2008-08-25T09:40:36Z")
> [@LZ](#): > > Where was don’t login as root… If you didn’t know that one, chances are the sysadmin isnt going to give you the root password. > [@boardjnky4](#): > > you know what really bugs me that a co-worker does? when he is cd’ng through directories, he always does individual cd’s > > random example: > > cd /home > ls > cd username > ls > cd Documents > ls > cd … > ls > cd Desktop > > god, just use the tab complete man!!! Hahaha I do that.