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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 …
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 …