Posts tagged with 'shell'
Searching for TIGER Features
Today I had a rather peculiar need to search through features from TIGER matching specfiic attributes. These files are not CSV or JSON, but rather ESRI Shapefiles. Shapefiles are a binary format which have long outlived their welcome according to man ... read more →
Copying and Unarchiving From a Server Without a Temp File
Sometimes I want to copy files from a remote machine--usually a server I control. Easy; just use scp, right? Well, today I had a subtly different twist to the usual problem. I needed to transfer a ~100GB tarball to my local machine, and I really want ... read more →