2021-07-09 #cli #unix-things-i-always-forget
Sometimes you want to spin up a process, but the port it wants to bind to is already in use. Or a port isn't listening to a process as you expected. lsof is a debugging life saver in these situations.
I rediscovered jq the other day, a little command line tool to format, read, and transform JSON from the command line.
Jq falls into one of my favorite categories of tools: the "simple and do one thing good" category—the Unix philosophy at its finest.
2020-07-15 #cli #unix-things-i-always-forget
Rsync is a command line tool to copy files between different hosts.
2020-06-02 #cli #unix-things-i-always-forget
Zipping is easy. Remembering zip's arguments is hard.
2020-03-18 #cli #unix-things-i-always-forget
A listing of my favorite ls features.
2020-03-18 #cli #unix-things-i-always-forget
A short intro on my second series: Unix things I always forget!
An attempt to document the Unix commands I know and care about. Consider this series a living document that will grow organically; I won't be updating or adding new posts on a set schedule.