This is the mail archive of the
cygwin
mailing list for the Cygwin project.
*nix little commands on Cygwin
- From: zzapper <david at tvis dot co dot uk>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2005 11:50:50 +0100
- Subject: *nix little commands on Cygwin
Hi,
*nix is full of "hidden" tools & features, that rarely get mentioned cos there's not much to go
wrong (amalgamated thread from gmane.os.cygwin.talk)
> ascii (display ascii table)
> cal (display this months calendar)
> cal 12 2007 (dec 2007)
> wtf imho (acronym decoder)
> od -a file.txt (octal/binary/ascii/hex dump of file)
> factor 32
"fun"
> fortune
> ddate
Quote "Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes!
Reminds me I need to finish packaging bsdgames, so we can have such gems as:
arithmetic: arithmetic quiz/speed test
bcd: outputs text in an antique form
factor: factor a number
morse: output morse code
number: output the English text for a number
pig: output text in Pig Latin
pom: display the phase of the moon
ppt: outputs text in another antique form
primes: generate primes
rain: attempts to create a rain drop effect (best at 9600 baud)
random: random lines from a file or random numbers
wargames: would you like to play a game?
worms: random worms scurrying across your screen
Missed any?
--
zzapper
vim -c ":%s%s*%Cyrnfr)fcbafbe[Oenz(Zbbyranne%|:%s)[[()])-)Ig|norm Vg?"
http://www.rayninfo.co.uk/tips/ vim, zsh & success tips
--
Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html
Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/