Notices tagged with unix

@moonshine @georgia I mute alllll the time. I think there's a difference between not being interested in something and wanting to silence someone so nobody else can hear them.

I'm really only on ~~mastodon~~ the Internet for 1 thing: 0) #unix and 1) #gaming

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Empty a file, 2 main ways
#OpenBSD #Unix

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Base conversion with shell arithmetic
$((BASE#NUMBER))

Examples
echo $((2#0011))
echo $((8#377))
echo $((16#D8))
echo $((12#10))
echo $((36#ZZYY))

#OpenBSD #unix

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How do you close the terminal window?

#shell #commandline #gui #devops #linux #unix #bsd #terminal

CC: @freebsdbytes @nixCraft

[ ] ^D
[ ] exit, logout, or quit
[ ] Close the window
[ ] Diff key combo (rply)

@librelounge great episode! I've been often thought it would be great to develop interpreters that allow users to enter commands and get responses in more natural language. The standard #UNIX CLI was designed for a time when every byte of RAM and hard drive space was a precious resource and I definitely don't want to lose that sense of econony from computing, quite the opposite. But there's no harm in adding trainer wheel layers that make using CLI more like playing a MUD.
@cwebber @emacsen

There's benefits to #vim too: it's a small install, light on memory, easy to extend with plug-ins, tried and tested, open source, still actively maintained, millions of users, and it works on #Unix and #Linux distributions alike.

I found a need to install syntax coloring for #rustlang into #vim. An official solution exists, available on #GitHub, in the RustLang repositories. It has good installation instructions. Setting it up was a breeze.

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Don't Do This: A short list of common mistakes in PostgreSQL. Awesome list in wiki format. https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Don%27t_Do_This #DBA #Sysadmin #Programming #Linux #unix #OpenSource #Goodreads

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/nixcraft/status/1124377716663377921

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#Unix #OpenBSD POSIX Shell : http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/xcu_chap02.html

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/wesley974/status/1109179022783729665

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#Unix #OpenBSD POSIX Shell Tricks :
http://www.etalabs.net/sh_tricks.html

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Periodic PSA:

Don't use `rm`

Use a tool like http://slackermedia.info/trashy/ to send files to your freedesktop.org Trash (or similar) and empty it later.

#rm #trash #linux #unix

RT @nixcraft

Everyone must choose one of two pains:

1. The pain of discipline to make backups and verify it on regular basis.

2. The pain of data loss and regret.

#linux #unix #sysadmin

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/nixcraft/status/1102153521779101696

I'm reading about some of the most boring and surprisingly complex #Unix things: #rsyslog

What I want to remark upon isn't so much all of the things rsyslog does but the fact that some guy, for the last 15 years, has nearly single-handedly decided that his life calling was apparently to make sure that we could all have system log files.

https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/commits/master

How does that happen? Why does someone decide that the most boring software is now their life's work?