Links tagged “shell”

refp.se

A shell colon does nothing. Use it anyway - the colon as no-op, placeholder and guard. Short, immediately usable.

tris.sherliker.net

Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt - a real, self-evaluating, obfuscated Akamai script, sold as clothing, taken apart line by line.

mareksuppa.com

HTTP requests without curl, using Bash /dev/TCP: the kind of TIL that makes you reread your own shell. A request with nothing but Bash.

github.com

modernish: a library for shell script programming

jvns.ca

You can use `fzf` to review git commits, a TIL by Julia Evans

remysharp.com

Rundown of modern replacements for classic Unix tools — bat for cat, fd for find, plus fzf, htop, ncdu, jq and tldr.

blog.cloudflare.com

How to run Go source files directly as executable scripts on Linux, by registering a wrapper interpreter with the binfmt_misc kernel module.

marmelab.com

Technique for making a Makefile document itself, by tagging targets with double-hash comments and parsing them into a help target with grep and awk.

mywiki.wooledge.org

Greg's Wiki collection of 122 answers to recurring Bash scripting questions, written by the regulars of the

debian.org

Chapter 12 of the Debian Reference, in French — shell scripting, interpreted and compiled languages, debugging with gdb, Make and Autotools, and building Debian packages.

linuxjournal.com

Walkthrough of building a self-extracting installer by appending a tar.gz payload to a shell script that strips itself, decompresses the archive and runs the install step.

cygwin.com

cat <<EOF HOME is $HOME the date is `date` the date is $(date) EOF cat <<"EOF" HOME is $HOME the date is `date` the date is $(date) EOF cat <<\EOF HOME is $HOME the date is `date` the date is $(date) EOF