Shell

Background jobs and inherited file descriptors March 28, 2026 · shard

Dynamic shell variables January 11, 2025 · article

Running only a single instance of a process December 31, 2024 · article

SSH saga December 17, 2024 · article

Discovering direnv October 2, 2024 · article

Bash namerefs for dynamic variable referencing September 20, 2024 · article

Shell redirection syntax soup September 12, 2024 · article

HTTP requests via /dev/tcp August 8, 2024 · article

The *nix install command July 28, 2024 · article

Here-doc headache July 19, 2024 · article

I kind of like rebasing June 18, 2024 · article

Pesky little scripts October 29, 2023 · article

Dotfile stewardship for the indolent September 27, 2023 · article

Using DNS record to share text data July 17, 2023 · article

Unix-style pipelining with Python's subprocess module July 14, 2023 · article

Implementing a simple traceroute clone in Python June 1, 2023 · article

Fixed-time job scheduling with UNIX 'at' command May 14, 2023 · article

Associative arrays in Bash May 3, 2023 · article

Process substitution in Bash April 30, 2023 · article

Dynamic menu with select statement in Bash April 29, 2023 · article

Simple terminal text formatting with tput April 23, 2023 · article

Tinkering with Unix domain sockets March 11, 2023 · article

Colon command in shell scripts December 23, 2022 · article

Auditing commit messages on GitHub October 6, 2022 · article

To quote or not to quote October 5, 2022 · article

Returning values from a shell function September 25, 2022 · article

Distil git logs attached to a single file June 21, 2022 · article

Health check a server with 'nohup $(cmd) &' April 18, 2022 · article

Don't add extensions to shell executables November 23, 2021 · article

Use 'command -v' over 'which' to find a program's executable November 16, 2021 · article