The Power of the Stream: Why I Stopped Opening Files
Explore the hidden power of sed: doing bulk searches and replacements in a single command.
Linux
Rsync: The Efficient Courier
Why re-upload everything? Learn how to sync your local forge with your remote VPS using only the bits that changed.
SSH Mastegry: Forging a Secret Tunnel
Stop typing IP addresses. Learn how to use the SSH config file to jump into your VPS with a single word.
Tmux: The Persistent Forge
Never lose your place again. Discover how Tmux keeps your forge hot even when the connection drops.
The Terminal as an Equalizer: Accessibility in the Command Line
The Secret to productivity on the command-line lies in mastering its simplicity and exploiting its power.
The Trinity Part 1: Grep, the Precision Scout
Grep is the right tool when you want to find not only files, but even the contents of files in a directory. This post is going to explore finding by inversion.
The Trinity Part 2: Sed, the Surgeon's Blade
Make your life simple by using sed, the stream editor, to make fast edits in one or more files
The Trinity Part 3: Awk, the Master Architect
A file is treated as a set of records, and each line is split into fields. This is the whole idea of awk: seeing data as an organised set of entities.