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dgsh — directed graph shell edit / delete
DDS's shell allowing the construction of arbitrary graphs of pipes. I like the examples, which range from "Directory listing" to "Nuclear magnetic resonance processing".
Operating Systems edit / delete
"This directory contains some scripts of the lecture Operating Systems at the Berufsakademie Stuttgart." (Or, as we'd say, some lectures for the module &c.) Interesting in that it uses Unix v6 and the Lions book.
to operating-systems retrocomputing teaching unix ... on 24 December 2016
ripgrep is faster than {grep, ag, git grep, ucg, pt, sift} - Andrew Gallant's Blog edit / delete
The tool isn't hugely compelling, but the collection of benchmarks for a regexp search engine is interesting.
to benchmarking grep performance search text unix ... on 06 December 2016
Capsicum Implementation Status edit / delete
I keep thinking "wouldn't it be nice if someone did capability-based security in Unix userspace" and then forgetting that this project already exists...
to capability capsicum security unix ... on 14 October 2016
Cache Directory Tagging Standard edit / delete
It feels like I ought to have written some scripts that implement this...
to cache filesystem unix ... on 14 October 2016
simonyiszk/csdr: A simple DSP library and command-line tool for Software Defined Radio. edit / delete
SDR pipeline tools for Unix. The author's done various neat stuff involving FM subcarriers with this.
"Welcome to the Unix Tree. Here you can browse the source code and manuals of various old versions of Unix." A lower-tech version of DDS's Git repo.
to digital history pdp11 retrocomputing unix ... on 11 October 2016
Command-line tools can be 235x faster than your Hadoop cluster edit / delete
Nothing wrong with a bit of 1970s technology in the right context -- how to solve a not-very-big-data problem the right way.
to awk cloud cluster hadoop performance pipeline unix ... on 14 September 2016
George Coulouris: Bits of History edit / delete
The author of em talks about it.
to ed editor em retrocomputing unix ... on 21 June 2016
Port of em to modern OS edit / delete
em being the Editor for Mortals, which added one-line editing to ed. The story I was told by Bob Eager (?) was that they installed this at Kent, but found fairly quickly that people tended to typo the name as "rm"...
to ed editor em retrocomputing software unix ... on 21 June 2016
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tasty by Adam Sampson.