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Great article but this shouldn't be called "Tricks" it should be called Shell Basics. I'm old enough to remember taking an Intro To Unix course and there was an entire day on the shell where these types of commands were presented as essential learning.
Yeah. All of those and more are in the manual: https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.html#Readline-Bare-Essentials
Yes, I know there are other shells than bash, but it's the one included as default almost everywhere, and where the article starts too.
A fact that I like to share from my personal history: I took four years to graduate from a two year college because I was taking every computer class they offered ... Except that I skipped "intro to Unix" because when was I ever going to use that?
My entire career has been largely based on knowing how to use Linux.