Week of unix tools; day 5: xargs
Posted Mon, 28 May 2007
Day 5 is online. It's about how to rock out with your friend, xargs(1).
Week of unix tools; day 4: data source tools
Posted Fri, 25 May 2007
Day 4 is finally ready for consumption, a bit late ;)
This article touches: cat, nc, ssh, openssl, GET, wget, w3m, and others. It's designed to show you a pile of tools you can use to pull data from various places.
Week of unix tools; day 3: awk!
Posted Tue, 22 May 2007
Day 3 is ready for viewing. It's about awk.
This article has lots of usage examples for the many ways you can use awk to do hard work for you. Check out the article here:
Week of unix tools; day 2: cut and paste!
Posted Sun, 20 May 2007
Day 2 is ready for viewing. It's about cut and paste.
Candice suggested these two tools are underutilized and are very useful when you need the features they provide.
Check out the article here:
Week of unix tools; day 1: Sed!
Posted Sat, 19 May 2007
Day 1 is ready for viewing. It's about sed, something I feel many sysadmins
(and others) neglect in favor of perl, awk, or other tools. It's a super useful tool. Check out the article here: