Sandra Henry-Stocker | ITworld edit / delete

"This blog offers advice for everyday Unix systems administration and some clever ways to approach more challenging problems." Lots of nice examples of how to string Unix tools together to do interesting things.

to patterns toolbox unix ... on 01 December 2013

cliapp: Python framework for Unix command line programs edit / delete

Unix patterns library for Python. I have something like this (but rather less sophisticated!) in misccode.

to patterns python unix ... on 24 October 2013

Proper handling of SIGINT/SIGQUIT edit / delete

What shells and applications ought to be doing.

to programming shell sigint signal unix ... on 07 June 2013

80386.nl // unix // utmpx edit / delete

How utmp and friends work across various Unix-likes.

to distribution posix sysadmin unix utmp ... on 04 June 2013

Contemporary Home Computing edit / delete

I largely agree with the "Turing-complete user" article, which argues that thinking in terms of the user (rather than a "user experience", or similar) is sensible in the context of general-purpose tools.

to design philosophy ui unix ... on 28 November 2012

fsniper documentation edit / delete

"fsniper is a utility that waits for a file to be changed, then executes a command on that file."

to inotify software unix ... on 25 November 2012

Everything Sysadmin: 4 unix commands I abuse every day edit / delete

Some handy Unix tricks. "grep ." (or, rather, "grep ''") is one I use quite a bit, but using par to produce single words was new.

to tips unix ... on 28 September 2012

Series: Unix as IDE « Arabesque edit / delete

A philosophy I also subscribe to.

to ide software-design tools unix ... on 16 September 2012

~sven_mascheck/ edit / delete

A comprehensive history of Unix shells, and the subtle differences between them.

to retrocomputing shell unix ... on 06 August 2012

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