Author: pforret

—
https://ketancmaheshwari.github.io/pdfs/LPT_LISA.pdf

My Favorite One Liners
In this post, I will be sharing my favorite commandline one liners that have made my workflow productive and more efficient.
—
https://muhammadraza.me/2021/Oneliners/

Adam Drake
Introduction As I was browsing the web and catching up on some sites I visit periodically, I found a cool article from Tom Hayden about using Amazon Elastic Map Reduce (EMR) and mrjob in order to compute some statistics on win/loss ratios for chess games he downloaded from the millionbase archive, a
—
https://adamdrake.com/command-line-tools-can-be-235x-faster-than-your-hadoop-cluster.html

The Dawn of a new Command Line Interface
disclaimer: this is a technical post aimed at developers being somewhat aware of the problem space. There will be a concluding ‘the day of…’ post aimed at end users where some of the benefits will be demonstrated in a stronger light.
—
https://arcan-fe.com/2017/07/12/the-dawn-of-a-new-command-line-interface/

What exactly was the point of [ “x$var” = “xval” ]?
In shell scripting you sometimes come across comparisons where each value is prefixed with “x”. Here are some examples from GitHub: I’ll call this the x-hack.
—
https://www.vidarholen.net/contents/blog/?p=1035

Building A Personalized Newsletter With Bash And A Raspberry Pi
I use Pinboard to save articles I’ve read and, increasingly, to save articles I want to read. That said I rarely go back and actually read things once they disappear into the Pinboard void. This isn’t an uncommon problem, I know, but I think I’ve devised a simple solution.
—
https://brianschrader.com/archive/building-a-personalized-newsletter-with-bash-and-a-raspberry-pi/

Bash Scripting: Everything you need to know about Bash-shell programming
Bash (AKA Bourne Again Shell) is a type of interpreter that processes shell commands. A shell interpreter takes commands in plain text format and calls Operating System services to do something. For example, ls command lists the files and folders in a directory.
—
https://medium.com/sysf/bash-scripting-everything-you-need-to-know-about-bash-shell-programming-cd08595f2fba

30 Bash Script Examples
This article will help you to get the basic idea on bash programming. Most of the common operations of bash scripting are explained with very simple examples
—
https://linuxhint.com/30_bash_script_examples/

frangipanni
Program to convert lines of text into beautiful tree structures. The program reads each line on the standard input in turn. It breaks each line into tokens, then adds the sequence of tokens into a tree structure. Lines with the same leading tokens are placed in the same branch of the tree.
—
https://github.com/birchb1024/frangipanni

Do Not Use ‘>’ in Your Command Prompt (and How to Stay Safe in Shell)
Over the years of troubleshooting performance problems in the Unix/Linux world, I have seen multiple cases where a regularly used command line tool in a customer server just stops working for some reason. The tool just returns immediately, doing absolutely nothing.
—
https://tanelpoder.com/posts/how-to-stay-safe-in-shell/