2020-06-29
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“Grepping” a stream of data is a powerful way to cut through the noise (I’ve written previously about its role in digging through git logs…
2020-03-26
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What are the differences between a , , ., and ? It turns out it’s both a lot and a little. Some basics: represents a compressed archive of…
2020-03-16
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In Git Log Archeology/ Digging In With Grep And Pickaxe, I noted that the utility is an acronym for ”globally search for a regular…
2020-02-13
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If you start running processes in the background, at some point, you may find you want to bring it back into focus. The utility seems…
2020-01-01
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When I first encountered file permissions in Unix, I was really intimidated. Why did permission 777 seem to solve all problems? What did 64…
2019-12-30
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When a terminal window gets busy, sometimes, it’s nice to make a little breathing so that it’s easier to see what’s going on. There are a…
2019-12-03
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By default, the shell on a Mac is . Changing this should be a simple three step process: Make sure that is installed and is an accepted…
2019-12-03
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If you switch between shells, it might be handy to determine which one is currently running. One way to do that is to check your process…
2019-11-15
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To create a symlink, you need only one command: For example, on Ubuntu, the package for Node.js is (not ). Since typing to run node would…
2019-11-13
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The is a quick way to repeat a command in a UNIX environment. For example, here I’m looking at a directory’s contents, then invoking it…
2019-11-10
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To make an environment variable available in Bash or Zsh, save the environment to or respectively. To set the variable, open the…
2019-05-31
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I wanted to be able to print cool trees of my directories to help show my folder structure. At first, I thought it was simply using standard…