Unix Command-Line Kung Fu

I was discussing with a friend a few weeks ago how challenging is to teach folks that come in from the exclusive Windows-world on advanced Unix topics. Yes, I mean the kind of user that ends up rebooting a Unix box after changing a conf file instead of just restarting the appropriate services 🙂 .

I’m sure those, both Unix beginners and their managers, will appreciate the following presentation I came across a few weeks ago: “Unix Command-Line Kung Fu“. It’s author, Hal Pomeranz, presented it at SANS 2008 Orlando as part of the @Night talk conferences.

I think these nice slides will make happy not only users with less experience with the Unix command line, but also some experienced Unix folks that will find a good amount of tricks that provide massive productivity increases. I especially like the slides devoted to “Time-Based Searches”, which contain useful commands for intrusion detection and forensics analysis.

Well done Hal and thanks for this great material. And for those wondering whether there is any Windows alike version, stay tuned!