Asides

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In the beginning there was darkness… but now there is cake! Cake is a really thin wrapper around make that runs all targets inside a development Docker/Podman container.
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https://github.com/wurosh/cake

Crestwave/shmenu
Simply direct the items to shmenu’s stdin, separated by newlines. In true suckless fashion, shmenu is configured through its source code.
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https://github.com/Crestwave/shmenu

pomo
You don’t have to install it. Just copy the following snippet in your .profile / .bashrc / .zshrc.
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https://github.com/sayanarijit/pomo

Chris’s Wiki : blog/programming/BourneBadForLargeScripts
In my recent entry on DKMS, I said some negative things about it being an almost 4,000 line long Bash script. In comments, a couple of people questioned this; for instance, Arnaud Gomes asked:
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https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/BourneBadForLargeScripts

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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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https://brianschrader.com/archive/building-a-personalized-newsletter-with-bash-and-a-raspberry-pi/