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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 …
Posted by Simon Larsén in Tip of the Week
Nowadays, Git is almost ubiquitous in software development. Most developers also know that Git is a decentralized version control system, meaning that every copy of the repository carries the full revision history, and there is no "central" repository. A consequence of the decentralized aspect of Git is that you can …
Posted by Simon Larsén in Tip of the Week
Admittedly, this TOTW is one day late, so this week there will be 2xTOTW! In any case, the tip I want to bring up here is very much related to last week's TOTW on Reverse search in bash. Sometimes, reverse searching just doesn't work out. You may not be quite …
Posted by Simon Larsén in Tip of the Week
Have you ever found yourself furiously tapping the UP-arrow (or ctrl+p) to
find a command that's probably waaaay up there? Would you be surprised if I
told you there's a better way? When you want to re-use a command you've written
previously, and you know it's not the previous …
Posted by Simon Larsén in Tip of the Week
In order to actually get around to writing some content, I've decided to start a little series: Tip of the Week! Every week, I'll spend 30 minutes or so writing a very small article about some tip related to programming, Linux or technology in general. And no, this one does …