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Ten Cool Linux Command Line Tricks for the Journeyman Practitioner

raindog308

Nov 16, 2025

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Here's some creature comforts for the budding Linux practitioner to make your life easier.

Ten Cool Linux Command Line Tricks for the Journeyman Practitioner

Turbo-Charge Your Linux Shell With These Easy Tricks!

raindog308

Sep 22, 2023

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Recently I had some folks watching my shared screen and they were constantly saying "oh, that was cool, I didn't know you could do that in the shell". Here's some shell tricks I showed them.

Turbo-Charge Your Linux Shell With These Easy Tricks!

How to Create and Display QR Codes From Shell Scripts

raindog308

Sep 05, 2023

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QR codes are easy to generate from shell scripts, and you can output them in a variety of formats, including not only images such as PNG but as terminal characters that you can view in your shell session.

How to Create and Display QR Codes From Shell Scripts

Command-Line DNS: Using the Porkbun API in Shell Scripts

raindog308

Mar 06, 2023

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Did you know you can control your Porkbun-hosted DNS from a shell script? Here's an example of using the Porkbun API with curl to create a DNS record, and links to more things you can do with their full-featured and oddly satisfying API.

Put a Glide in Your Stride and a Dip In Your Hip and Use a Mother Script!

raindog308

Feb 12, 2023

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In this tutorial, learn how to make your cron-driven shell scripts easier to manage by using a mother script. We'll show you how you'll never have to think about cleaning up temp files again!

Put a Glide in Your Stride and a Dip In Your Hip and Use a Mother Script!

Here Today, Gone When You Exit: Proper Tempfiles in Shell Scripts

raindog308

Apr 09, 2022

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In the course of my career, I've periodically come across code like this in shell scripts: TEMP_FILE=/tmp/tempfile Or sometimes, slightly more elegantly: TEMPFILE=/tmp/tempfile.$$ The problems with th...

Here Today, Gone When You Exit: Proper Tempfiles in Shell Scripts

Using the imgbb.com API for Easy Command-Line Image Hosting

raindog308

May 25, 2021

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Like many of my fellow LowendTalk readers, I sometimes post images on LET and other boards. To do that, I need an image hosting service. Going through the work of logging into a web page, uploading...

Using the imgbb.com API for Easy Command-Line Image Hosting

Top Ten Things That Should Be In Your Dot Files

raindog308

Oct 13, 2020

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"Dot files" are Unix configuration files that live in your home directory. They're often used to store user-specific choices and preferences. For example: .bash_profile is executed whenever you logi...

Top Ten Things That Should Be In Your Dot Files

Replacing Big Fat Bash with Dash for Scripting

LEA

Mar 15, 2009

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A while a go I looked at Bash replacements for interactive shells. Unfortunately for me, I am just getting too used to having Bash on the command line and can't get myself used to other shells. Howeve...

Replacing Big Fat Bash with Dash for Scripting

Replacing That Big Fat Bash

LEA

Feb 09, 2009

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It's actually a tip from Lincoln, who emailed me last month: Another idea is to replace bash (~4M/instance) with pdksh (~1M/instance). It doesn't sound like much, but if you're like me and you're have...