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Posted by Simon Larsén in Tip of the Week
A couple of weeks ago I covered some basic I/O redirection in bash (see I/O redirection in bash). Well, there's actually a lot more to it, so for this TOTW I thought I'd touch on a few more advanced usages.
Sometimes, you may find that part …
Posted by Simon Larsén in Tip of the Week
Another Tip of the Week, in the same week as the previous one (because I've been slacking off). This one is very simple, and rather non-technical. I simply want to direct attention toward humblebundle.com, and their quite frequent book bundles. Many of these book bundles include or are entirely …
Posted by Simon Larsén in Tip of the Week
Alright, so Tip of the Week has turned somewhat into "tip every two or three weeks". It turns out that it's pretty difficult to find the time to actually write something every week. but I'll keep trying. With that out of the way, let's head into the subject matter of …
Posted by Simon Larsén in Tip of the Week
Many, many bash commands are built around and meant to be used with a
fundamental feature of the bash shell (actually, most shells), called piping.
Put simply, piping takes the output of one command and provides it as input to
the next. Here's a simple example of running ls and …
Posted by Simon Larsén in Tip of the Week
For this Tip of the Week, I'd like to present something that took me a while to figure out why it was useful. That something is bash aliases, and I'll now walk you through how to create aliases, and the two main ways in which I use them (although I'm …