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Tom Ryder's systems administration and programming blog about Unix, GNU/Linux, shell scripting, Vim, and command-line tools. Latest feed post: May 2020.

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  • Passing runtime data to AWK #Programming #ShellScripting #Awk

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    May 31, 2020

  • Vimways: Runtime hackery #Vim #Programming #Tech

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    Dec 10, 2018

  • Vimways: From .vimrc to .vim #Vim #Programming #Tech

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    Dec 8, 2018

  • Shell from vi #Vim #Shell #Programming

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    Feb 18, 2017

  • Bash hostname completion #Bash #SysAdmin #CommandLine

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    Feb 10, 2017

  • Custom commands #Unix #ShellScripting #Programming

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    Oct 22, 2016

  • Cron best practices #SysAdmin #Cron #DevOps

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    May 8, 2016

  • Shell config subfiles #Shell #Programming #SysAdmin

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    Jan 29, 2015

  • Prompt directory shortening #ShellScripting #CommandLine #Unix

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    Nov 7, 2014

  • Testing exit values in Bash #Bash #Programming #Scripting

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    Oct 28, 2013