@UnixToolTip

Tips on Unix utilities and related topics from @JohnDCook.

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'The enjoyment of one's tools is an essential ingredient of successful work.' -- Donald E. Knuth
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Vim for Humans vimebook.com/en

Vim for humans

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You can find the dimensions of a png image using the file command, e.g. file foo.png.
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Can install GNU versions of Unix utilities on Mac with homebrew: brew install coreutils
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The ed line editor: bravado, utility, and history johndcook.com/blog/2023/12/1…

The ed line editor: bravado, utility, and history

Is using the ed line editor a way to show technical machismo, a practical way to get work done, or a historical curiosity. It's all three.

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Help for each argument of a shell command: explainshell.com/
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List only subdirectories of the current directory: ls -d */
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Avoiding multiprocessing errors in bash shell johndcook.com/blog/2024/02/1…

Multiprocess Errors | Bash Shell | Linux | Multithreading

Errors are easy to make when programming multiple concurrent processes or threads. Using atomic operations and well-formed locks can help to avoid such errors.

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Shell scripts run in their own subshell, so a cd in a script only effects the subshell. To script a cd, use an alias instead.
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Two bash shortcuts to cd into /long/path/name cp file.txt /long/path/name cd !$ cp file.txt /long/path/name/foo.txt cd !$:h The :h modifier is for "head", i.e. strip off the last part of the path.
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UNIX Style, or cat -v Considered Harmful harmful.cat-v.org/cat-v/
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Summarizing Emacs cursor movement commands johndcook.com/blog/emacs_mov…

Emacs movement commands

Summary of the ways to move the point (cursor) in Emacs

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Mastering the Vim language youtube.com/watch?v=wlR5gYd6… by @christoomey

Mastering the Vim Language

Chris Toomey talks about mastering the Vim language. Vim's core is ...

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Better bash scripting in 15 minutes robertmuth.blogspot.com/2012…
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bash lets you use &> to send stdout and stderr to a file. Version 4 or later.
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'If you had done something twice, you are likely to do it again.' -- Brian Kernighan and Rob Pike
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Opening large files in Emacs emacsredux.com/blog/2014/05/… by @bbatsov

Opening Large Files

I guess everyone has seen the following warning (at some point or another) when trying to open a relatively large file in Emacs: File foo.bar is large (XX.XM), really open? By default Emacs will...

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Sort and remove duplicates in large files johndcook.com/blog/2023/08/0…

Sort and remove duplicates

Sorting lines and remove duplicates at the same time is more efficient than doing the tasks sequentially.

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Using git, add and commit all modified files in one command: git commit -a -m 'commit message'
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Rename foo.old to foo.new: mv foo.{old,new} foo.new
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'Gow (Gnu On Windows) is the lightweight alternative to Cygwin,' github.com/bmatzelle/gow

GitHub - bmatzelle/gow: Unix command line utilities installer for Windows.

Unix command line utilities installer for Windows. - bmatzelle/gow

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