Sun 23 June 2019
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.
Redirecting stderr
Sometimes, you may find that part …
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Thu 13 June 2019
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 …
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Tue 11 June 2019
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 …
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Tue 21 May 2019
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 …
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Mon 06 May 2019
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 …
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