3. General-Purpose Tools and Techniques
Although specialized debugging tools can be friendly and efficient, general-purpose ones often have an edge because you can use them to quickly solve a wide variety of development and operations problems in diverse languages and platforms. The tools described in this chapter trace their origin to Unix, but are nowadays available on most systems including GNU/Linux, Windows, and OS X. The flexibility, efficiency, and wide applicability they offer you justifies investing time and effort to master them. A succinct guide you can use for this purpose is Joshua Levy’s collaboratively edited text, “The Art of Command Line.” Assuming you know the basics of Unix command-line use and regular expressions, this chapter ...
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