How do you do "X" in Unix (Linux,Solaris..)?

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| So Windows users aren't prepared for choice. The same misunderstandings apply
| to naive Unix users who never understood that they had choices: a csh user
| suddenly transported to Linux bash may cry "How do I repeat commands in
| Linux?", a SCO user accustomed to DEL being his INTR character will
| complain "I can't get ping to stop!" (and a Windows user, accustomed
| to "ping" quitting by itself, will make the same complaint). None of them
| understand that it isn't "Linux" or "OS X" that is conspiring to confuse
| them: it's simply default choices that can be easily changed.
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