“I run Linux” is basically “I drive stick” for nerds. 🤩
I know I’m really excited about the thing I’m working on when I get so hungry that I can’t concentrate any longer and have to stop to make food, but mostly I’m annoyed that I can’t make food and type at the same time.
In my recent post about setting up Ubuntu with Bash scripts, I briefly alluded to the magic of .bashrc. This didn’t really do it justice, so here’s a quick post that offers a bit more detail about what the Bash configuration file can do.
My current configuration hugely improves my …
One of my most favorite things about open source files on GitHub is the ability to see how others do (what some people might call) mundane things, like set up their .bashrc and other dotfiles. While I’m not as enthusiastic about ricing as I was when I first came to the Linux side, I still get …
Search and replace a word in Vim:
:%s/\<word\>/newword/g
The % indicates to look in all lines of the current file; s is for substitute; \<word\> matches the whole word; and the g is for globally, ie. every occurrence.
Or use gc at the end there, if you want to confirm (c) each change.
Me: echo --help
Computer: --help
😒
Few things are more satisfying to me than one elegant line of Bash that automates hours of tedious work. As part of some recent explorations into automatically re-creating my laptop with Bash scripts, I wanted to find a way to easily clone my GitHub-hosted repositories to a new machine. After a bit …
Sooo if you sudo apt remove python3 on Ubuntu, the desktop goes away. 🥺
sudo apt install ubuntu-desktop brings it back. 😄
A quick way to clone a list of @GitHub repos.
Given a file, repos.txt with a repository’s SSH link on each line (and your SSH keys set up), run:
xargs -n1 git clone < repos.txt
Will clone all repositories into the current folder.
I wonder how tomatoes feel about being dipped in ketchup