Blog posts tagged "unix"

1. 21 Jul 2021 Unix tooling - join, don't extend

   Reading a 1984 paper by Pike and Kernighan helped crystallise an important axiom in Unix tool design about joining programs rather than extending them.

2. 28 Dec 2020 Waiting for jobs, and the concept of the shell

   How Bash's wait builtin deepened my understanding of Bash scripting as a language.

3. 08 Nov 2020 The myriad meanings of pwd in Unix systems

   Exploring the myriad meanings of pwd in Unix and Linux systems based on a Twitter poll with varied results.

4. 16 Aug 2020 Why we have /bin/ and /usr/bin/

   The simple historic reason why Unix systems have both /bin/ and /usr/bin/ directories.

5. 23 Oct 2019 Shell power and simplicity

   Reflecting on the often overlooked power and simplicity of shell programming concepts.

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