Ubuntu – The fastest way to create a file from a terminal

bashcommand linefiles

What is the simplest way to create a file using a command-line? Usually I use:

touch filename

But is this the simplest/fastest way?

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This will save you five keypresses relative to touch filename

>filename

but is not the equivalent of touch as it will truncate filename if it exists. The following does what you want

>>filename

but note that it is not equivalent to touch either, as it does not update filename's modification timestamp.

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Ubuntu – How to select the fastest mirror from the command line

Pakket netselect-apt

    dapper (net): Choose the fastest Debian mirror with netselect 
    [universe]
    0.3.ds1-5: all
    hardy (net): Choose the fastest Debian mirror with netselect 
    [universe]
    0.3.ds1-11: all

Pakket apt-spy

    dapper (admin): writes a sources.list file based on bandwidth tests 
    [universe]
    3.1-14: amd64 i386 powerpc

Not included in newer Ubuntu due to secturity issues it seems: see: Bug report

But .. I normally just use ping to find out the speed of a connection to some location. Amount of hops and latency.

Ubuntu – Fastest way to backup a single file

Create a shell function

backup() {
   cp ${1} ${1}~
}

Put it in your shell rc file, for bash it is ~/.bashrc. Source .bashrc or start a new shell.

 . ~/.bashrc
 backup youFile

And you have a copy of yourFile.

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