David Singleton , a Web Developer working at Last.fm, living in London.

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Things I've tagged “bash” (16 things)

• How to convert a string to upper or lower case in bash?   (Thursday November 5, 2009)

  Using tr (translate).

  Also tagged bash reference unix shell howto lowercase

• ack -- a power search tool for programmers   (Thursday July 23, 2009)

  "better than grep" is not a lie. Really useful tool for searching source and code files. By default it ignores git/svn files (which often spam grep results)

  Also tagged programming development unix code bash search

• Using xargs like I mean it, a bash example.   (Monday July 13, 2009)

  Using xargs like I mean it. svn st * | grep “^ C” | cut -c 8- | xargs svn...

  Also tagged bash bash-example bashfu commandline grep svn xargs code

• A Unix Utility You Should Know About: Pipe Viewer   (Thursday June 11, 2009)

  Pipe viewer is a terminal-based tool for monitoring the progress of data through a pipeline. It can be inserted into any normal pipeline between two processes to give a visual indication of how quickly data is passing through, how long it has taken, how near to completion it is, and an estimate of how long it will be until completion.

  Also tagged reference bash unix pipes toread shellfoo

• Skip to Next or Previous Word in iTerm Using Alt / Option + Left or Right Arrow Keys   (Monday May 18, 2009)

  This is such a pain to setup.

  Also tagged osx bash console tips terminal iterm

• Command-line Fu < The best UNIX commands on the web   (Sunday March 22, 2009)

  Another bash-fu type site, better than most i've seen. Particular new favourite that gives the power "^x^y" lacked:
  "!!:gs/foo/bar -- Runs previous command replacing foo by bar every time that foo appears."

  Also tagged programming commands tricks unix bash

• manpagez   (Monday February 16, 2009)

  Also tagged reference unix command manual manpage manpages bash

• 10 Tips for Writing Efficient Bash Scripts | HACKTUX   (Monday February 2, 2009)

  Also tagged bash linux unix tips scripts

• Screen? A must for SSH ~ Mattias Geniar   (Wednesday October 22, 2008)

  Also tagged bash unix shell screen productivity

• Updated bash PS1 | Richard Jones, Esq.   (Thursday October 16, 2008)

  Also tagged bash prompt

• Famous Sed One-Liners Explained, Part I - good coders code, great reuse   (Wednesday October 8, 2008)

  Also tagged programming sed bash

• Linux Commands - A practical reference   (Friday July 18, 2008)

  Also tagged bash commandline shell terminal unix reference

• Find is a beautiful tool   (Thursday July 10, 2008)

  Also tagged commandline linux shell unix bash

• QDB: Alex on Haskell   (Thursday April 24, 2008)

  Also tagged haskell bash quote

• Shell Fu. Bash.org for Bash   (Saturday March 22, 2008)

  Also tagged bash shell tips

• Speaking UNIX, Part 9: Regular expressions   (Sunday March 16, 2008)

  Also tagged bash programming unix regexp regex