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Enough unix to get by

A baseline of commands and concepts that you need to navigate your command-line shell in a professional environment.
Mike Burns
July 14, 2025
- Unix
- Development
Powerful Git Macros For Automating Everyday Workflows

Improve your everyday git workflows by automating the boring stuff.
Wil Hall
May 14, 2020
- Git
- DevTools
- Unix
- Shell
- Productivity
Executables can Introspect their Output Destination

Sometimes, a programs output will depend on where it is sending that output.
Sid Raval
December 6, 2019
- TIL
- Unix
- Shell
Templating tmux with tmuxinator

tmux does one thing and does it well as any unix tool should, but that doesn’t mean you should stop there.
Simon van Dyk
March 13, 2019
- tmux
- CLI
- Unix
Following the Path

A journey into requiring files via $PATH and $LOAD_PATH.
Joël Quenneville
April 10, 2017
- Web
- Ruby
- Unix
Executing Elevated Commands in Your Current Environment

No more maintaining multiple versions of gems for your system Ruby!
Justin Kenyon
March 9, 2016
- Ruby
- Unix
Ruby's ARGF

How to write well-behaved data-processing Unix utilities in Ruby.
Calle Erlandsson
October 13, 2015
- Ruby
- Unix
Input/Output Redirection in the Shell

Delve deep into stdout, stderr, and pipes plus some neat tricks that you might not know.
Gabe Berke-Williams
August 3, 2015
- Unix
CSVKit Brings the Unix Philosophy to CSV

Use CSVKit to parse CSV at the command line.
Gabe Berke-Williams
March 27, 2015
- Unix
Announcing pick

Fuzzy select anything.
Calle Erlandsson and Mike Burns
March 10, 2015
- News
- Open Source
- Unix
- C
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