Reasons to use Vim

viemu.com/a-why-vi-vim.h…

In bash, !^ expands to 2nd word of previous command.

'Don't ever, ever plan a backup strategy. Plan a restore strategy.' -- Paul Randal

Combine multiple consecutive blank lines into one: cat -s

'frawk is a small programming language for writing short programs processing textual data. To a first approximation, it is an implementation of the AWK language.'

More efficient, more support for parsing CSV files.

github.com/ezrosent/frawk…

Formatting numbers at the command line johndcook.com/blog/2019/10/3…

Seven habits of effective text editing
by Bram Moolenaar

web.archive.org/web/2007081418…

Using strings(1) to search for strings inside binary files

johndcook.com/blog/2024/04/2…

The meter was very nearly defined as the length of a pendulum such that the period is exactly two seconds.

This would mean the strength of gravity, measured in meters and seconds, is exactly pi squared.

But it's not - a short thread on the importance of units🧵

GNU less can extract text from a PDF.

johndcook.com/blog/2024/04/2…

Evil Mode: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Emacs youtu.be/JWD1Fpdd4Pc

If you don’t know what version of Unix a shell is running, try typing uname.

Bash pitfalls mywiki.wooledge.org/BashPitfalls

Need to look up directions but you left your phone at home and only have a dumb terminal? Never fear! You can just telnet to mapscii.me and get a zoomable world map, all in ASCII over telnet.

Avoiding multiprocessing errors in bash shell

johndcook.com/blog/2024/02/1…

diff3 compares three files line by line.

Error handling in bash scripts jtrocinski.com/posts/Bash-Err…

chmod +x marks a file as executable