A Command-Line Murder Mystery!
By Noah Veltman who appears to have impeccable gums.
seventeen things tagged “unix”
Cowsay! 🐮
I love me my cowsay. It’s a lovely amusement that greets me every time I open a terminal session. People typically use it with the fortune command but my cow moos a random developer excuse. I generate that using this bash function and this invocation: command -v cowsay >/dev/null 2>&1 &am…
pup is a delightful little command-line utility that lets you parse HTML
Think jq but for HTML/DOM. If you wanted to get all the post titles on this log, curl -s -o - https://log.nikhil.io/ | gunzip - | pup "header > h2 > a" text{} Lovely stuff.…
On Techbros and Their Opinions and Expertise about Vaccines
If you’ve ever installed a program using “curl XYZ | sh” don’t worry about what’s in the vaccine Daniel Feldman ♥️♥️♥️…
Math in Bash
Lovely stuff. Cached here.…
How to Write a Shell in C
About as ‘essential’ as it gets if you want to appreciate a tool you work with every day. (Cached)…
gron is a JSON grepper
Woo! Covers the biggest reason why I use jq (grep for fields) which, as the gron author notes, is more general-purpose and takes a little more effort to understand and use.…
“The key to making programs fast is to make them do practically nothing.”
On why GNU grep is fast. Via HN.…
The Korn Shell
Good talk by Siteshwar Vashisht at FOSDEM 2019 on maintaining the Korn shell and old codebases in general. I came by his work while reading up on the fish shell. Featured this nugget He talks about how they removed dead/inapplicable code and micro-optimizations, refactored a lot of legacy code, imp…
The AWK Programming Language
Peruse from time to time to learn more than ye olde {print $3}…
Unix as an IDE
I love this. There really is nothing (or at least very little) that’s new under the Sun.