Posts tagged with 'shell'
Returning to Emacs
JetBrains woes I have been a fan of JetBrains products for over a decade by now, and an unapologetic lover of IDEs generally. I've used PyCharm since shortly after it launched, and over the years I've used IntelliJ IDEA, WebStorm, DataGrip, RustRover ... read more →
Using tar with Your Favorite Compression
Here's a fun one! You may already know that tarball is a pure archive format, and that any compression is applied to the whole archive as a unit. That is to say that compression is not actually applied at the file level, but to the entire archive. Th ... read more →
Delightfully Simple Pipelines with Nushell
I've been using nushell as my daily driver for about six months now, and wanted to show a few simple examples of why I'm enjoying it so much. I think it's a breath of fresh air compared to most shells. Why a new Shell? In case you've never heard of i ... read more →
Faster SSH File Transfers with rsync
If you're a developer or sysadmin, there's a pretty good chance you've had to transfer files back and forth. Back in the old days, you may have used the ftp utility or something similar (I think my first one was probably CuteFTP). Then you probably t ... read more →
Searching for TIGER Features
Today I had a rather peculiar need to search through features from TIGER matching specific 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 →