Hello world!

Okay, here we go.

As a side-project to my *nix shell programming tutorial, I thought it might be an idea to start a blog, with regular postings of general hints and tips.

Not the overview stuff that the tutorial provides, but more “cheat codes” type stuff; crib-sheets to get you through the day.

Here’s one for starters: Sed 1-Liners There’s an awful lot you can do with sed if you have the secret sauce. Without this file, I’d be stuck with sed s/foo/bar/g, and that’d be it. You can do a lot with sed. The file linked above contains many very useful tricks.

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