Bash tips and tricks

• The brilliant guide to advancing in Bash by legendary Sam Rowies.

  Advancing in Bash shell

• The find command

  • Examples here

find ./ -type f -name "*.pyc" -exec rm -rf {} \;

• The rsync command

  • Examples here

rsync -avz --exclude '.svn' source/ destination/

The above will reproduce a working directory with svn hidden files to create a neat unversioned copy.