Important commands in your everyday life. echo 'obase=2; ibase=10; 0.1' | bc convert 0.1 to binary echo 'obase=10; ibase=2; .0001' | bc and convert it back (cd dir && command) run command in dir without changing to it pushd, popd push and pop directories ls /usr/bin | pr -T9 -W$COLUMNS 9 zeilige Ausgabe look words beginning with a string (default: dictionary) References: http://www.pixelbeat.org/cmdline.html