Poll: Have you ever run the command "rm -rf /" as a root user on your #Linux, #FreeBSD (or *BSD), #macOS, or #Unix system? Please share if you have and how it happened. Let's be honest. Please boost for reach. TIA.
This is hilarious. A #Google engineer invented #zx to make command line scripting easier with #NodeJS, because at a certain point #shell scripts get too complicated and you need a Real #Programming Language.
This is exactly #Perl’s use case from thirty-six years ago. But the kids want #JavaScript everywhere and would rather it take more work to convert their ascended #Bash scripts to a vastly different syntax.
On January 24, 1984, Macintosh computers were introduced by Apple. Happy Birthday 🎂 Today, Mac is one of the few certified #Unix machines you can buy easily. Do you use a Mac?
Okay, so. I have a #PDF and a #DOCX file. And I’d like to compare them. And since I’m a programmer, I don’t want to compare them visually, but with a #diff. But how?
Like this.
alias pdfcat='gs -q -sDEVICE=txtwrite -o-'
alias doccat='pandoc -t plain'
pdfcat a.pdf > a.txt
doccat b.docx > b.txt
git diff --no-index --word-diff a.txt b.txt
And since we’re using --word-diff, it doesn’t matter that the two files use wildly different line wrapping.
Remembering Dennis Ritchie, born this day 1941. I had the great privilege of working with Dennis during my summer at Bell Labs. This is his "What am I doing in a suit?" photo. #UNIX#BellLabs
helloSystem is a desktop system for creators with a focus on simplicity, elegance, and usability. Its design follows the “Less, but better” philosophy. It is intended as a system for “mere mortals”, welcoming to switchers from the Mac. #FreeBSD is used as the core operating system https://hellosystem.github.io/docs/#unix#macos
This #Linux, #Unix, #macOS, #FreeBSD shell feature comparison table shows that ZSH and FISH have the most features. Why aren't you using ZSH or FISH yet?