Unix Commands I Wish I’d Discovered Years Earlier
I've been using *nix systems for quite a while. But there are a few commands that I somehow overlooked and wish I'd discovered years earlier.
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I've been using *nix systems for quite a while. But there are a few commands that I somehow overlooked and wish I'd discovered years earlier.
An easy bit of Bash configuration that will log your bash history to dated log files so you can refer back to them at any point in the future.
Does your package.json file have a large scripts section? If you have more than a handful of extremely simple npm scripts, try Makefiles.
I was working on a server this morning and accidentally deleted an important configuration file. Like many Linux users, I lamented the absence of an “undelete” command.
A simple Makefile for C or C++ that automatically finds sources, determines include flags, and sets up header dependencies.
The pros and cons of both Emacs and WebStorm for Node.js development.
I wrote a simple dexec script to make running commands through Docker containers less clunky. I'll show you what dexec is and how to use it!