Well, not one of my normal blog posts, but I hope some of you geeks out there will find this useful anyways. I will definitely use this post as a reference frequently.
I have been using various flavors of UNIX and their command lines from ksh to bash and zsh for over 25 years and there is always something new to learn to make me faster at the jobs I am doing. One tool that I keep using (despite my growing command of Excel), is <a href=”http://vim.org”>VIM</a> coupled with UNIX command line tools. It saves me hours and hours of work all the time.
Well, here are some new things I learned and want to remember from the Well, here are some new things I learned and want to remember from the art of command line github repo:
CTRL-W
on the command line deletes the last wordpgrep
to search for processes rather than doing the longer version with awklsof -iTCP -sTCP:LISTEN -P -n
processes listening on TCP portsdiff <(jq --sort-keys . < file1.json) <(jq --sort-keys . < file2.json) | colordiff | less -R
csvkit
– brew install csvkit
in2csv file1.xls > file1.csv
csvstat data.csv
csvsql --query "select name from data where age > 30" data.csv > old.csv
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