The Bash default command line completion isn't as good as Windows. But you can configure it to be the same. Just edit ~/.inputrc and add the following:
set completion-ignore-case on
set mark-directories on
set mark-symlinked-directories on
set show-all-if-ambiguous on
set visible-stats on
$if mode=vi
"\C-0-": digit-argument
TAB: menu-complete
"\e[Z": "\C-0-\t"
$else
TAB: menu-complete
"\e[Z": "\M—1\t"
$endif
If you're creating a simple Virtual Machine that's only got a console and you don't have any security concerns (e.g. a test network isolated from the internet), then you can enable auto-login.
Install the package mingetty. e.g. apt-get install mingetty
Enable the root account. e.g. sudo passwd root
Edit the tty file.
In Ubuntu 10.04 it is in /etc/init/tty.conf. Change the line to exec /sbin/mingetty --autologin root tty1
In Ubuntu 9.04 or earlier it is in /etc/event.d/tty1. Change the line to exec /sbin/mingetty --autologin root tty1
In other linuxes, try /etc/inittab. Change the line to 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty --autologin root tty1
By default the terminal window will blank out if nothing is done, which is not very useful if you're monitoring stuff. To disable this, use the following command.
setterm -blank 0 -powersave off -powerdown 0
find -printf '"%P";"%Tc";"%s";\n' > ~/files.csv
less +F error.log
To page up / page down, you need to press Ctrl-c.
To re-enter forward forever mode, press F.
cp /folder/file.ext{,-`date +%Y-%m-%d-%H%M%S`}