What are your top most useful Unix commands?

kill lets you send any signal to a process you have control over. Corresponding signal handlers allow a wide range of behavior changes.

ls, find, grep, tar, cpio

But in truth, it's the bash scripting 'glue' that holds everything together.

the semicolon ";" for chaining commands

ls -l

the "alias" command in a file for setting up quick-commands

grep, find, tail -f (useful to look at log files as they update)

Extras: sort, uniq, sed, sftp, apropos, man

top

jk, but also not.

w !sudo tee % in vim, even tho that's not really directly a unix thing?

history | grep

dirs -v pushd popd

cd pwd ls

cut, awk, sed, comm, grep

git

emacs&

find, grep

time cat