Jacob Kaplan-Moss

Activity tagged “unix”

Bookmarks

Things UNIX can do atomically — Crowley Code!

Incredibly useful roundup of atomic syscalls (on POSIX, at least). I knew about link and open(O_CREAT | O_EXCL), but not the fcntl and mmap tricks which looks like they'd be really useful.

(concurrency, reference, unix)

shunit2 - Project Hosting on Google Code

xUnit test framework for Base scripts. Wish I'd never found this — now I no longer have an excuse for not testing shell scripts.

(bash, script, shell, testing, unittest, unix, xunit)

Sysadmin horror stories

Some really awesome stuff in here.

(funny, horror, linux, stories, sysadmin, unix, via:malcolmt)

XMLStarlet Command Line XML Toolkit: Overview

Tools for dealing with XML from the command line. Works especially well as part of a pipeline — curl + xmlstarlet makes a wonderful REST web service consumer.

(rest, software, unix, xml)

Waka Waka Bang Splat! The World's First Internet Special-Characters Poem

Classic.

(humor, shebang, unix, waka)

ack — a grep replacement that ignores .svn/CVS/blib directories, understands file types, uses Perl regexes, and much more

Whoa, this is *so* much better than grep it's not even funny.

(grep, perl, search, shell, software, sysadmin, text, tools, unix)

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* is Unix

Links to a bunch of simple forking network servers inspired by I like Unicorn because it’s Unix.

(languages, memes, networking, posix, unix)