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5 Unix things you wish you knew as a beginner...

I am trying to get better at UNIX, and I wanted to post a question so I can take some advice from more experienced programmers. What are some things that you wished you knew (while you were learning UNIX) that you think every beginner should know?
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Beside learning you should keep in mind that UNIX is a massive and comprehensive Operating System that includes many aspects includes but not limited to Networking,Scripting,Storage Management and so on .
Investing time in learning one UNIX variant virtually means that you are able to deal with other UNIX and Linux flavors or even VMS OS , MAC or virtually any other command line based OS
 
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