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Re: 25 Even More Slick Linux Commands

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Post by jackolas »

jazzychad wrote: post #6
AdamGibbins wrote: post #5

I really wish these blogs would stop replacing " with “ and ' with ’. I know it looks nicer, but it totally breaks the ability to paste into a shell :(

This is a result of WordPress's "texturize" function, which is buried deep within the main core of WP. It changes all the 'normal' punctuation marks with their 'prettier' alternatives, and it has always driven me insane. Funny story: I had the good fortune to drive Matt Mullenweg to dinner after a WordCamp, and in the car we talked about many things. We got to the topic of typography, which made me lament the fact th…

They just need to change them back on hilight.

Re: 25 Even More Slick Linux Commands

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Post by syaz1 »

jazzychad wrote: post #6
AdamGibbins wrote: post #5

I really wish these blogs would stop replacing " with “ and ' with ’. I know it looks nicer, but it totally breaks the ability to paste into a shell :(

This is a result of WordPress's "texturize" function, which is buried deep within the main core of WP. It changes all the 'normal' punctuation marks with their 'prettier' alternatives, and it has always driven me insane. Funny story: I had the good fortune to drive Matt Mullenweg to dinner after a WordCamp, and in the car we talked about many things. We got to the topic of typography, which made me lament the fact th…

My speed read deciphered that as "shot Matt and dumped him side highway"...

Re: 25 Even More Slick Linux Commands

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Post by steve-howard »

japaget wrote: post #4

The list stops partway through the 18th command on Firefox 3.6.13, IE 8, Safari 5.03, Google Chrome 8.0, or Opera 11.00. Use the "Original Link" in yarapavan's comment below to see the rest.

Seems that there's a in the original text where the text stops. Apparently the HTML wasn't escaped on that line.

Re: 25 Even More Slick Linux Commands

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Post by michaelbuckbee »

jazzychad wrote: post #6
AdamGibbins wrote: post #5

I really wish these blogs would stop replacing " with “ and ' with ’. I know it looks nicer, but it totally breaks the ability to paste into a shell :(

This is a result of WordPress's "texturize" function, which is buried deep within the main core of WP. It changes all the 'normal' punctuation marks with their 'prettier' alternatives, and it has always driven me insane. Funny story: I had the good fortune to drive Matt Mullenweg to dinner after a WordCamp, and in the car we talked about many things. We got to the topic of typography, which made me lament the fact th…

I can't find the interview, but I think this was actually one of the things that prompted Matt into creating Wordpress (the inability of existing solutions to do decent typography).

Re: 25 Even More Slick Linux Commands

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Post by nodata »

jazzychad wrote: post #6
AdamGibbins wrote: post #5

I really wish these blogs would stop replacing " with “ and ' with ’. I know it looks nicer, but it totally breaks the ability to paste into a shell :(

This is a result of WordPress's "texturize" function, which is buried deep within the main core of WP. It changes all the 'normal' punctuation marks with their 'prettier' alternatives, and it has always driven me insane. Funny story: I had the good fortune to drive Matt Mullenweg to dinner after a WordCamp, and in the car we talked about many things. We got to the topic of typography, which made me lament the fact th…

Why were you embarrassed?

Re: 25 Even More Slick Linux Commands

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Post by yarapavan »

euccastro wrote: post #10
jrockway wrote: post #9

I use this alias: alias http="plackup -MPlack::App::Directory -e 'Plack::App::Directory->new({ root => \$ENV{PWD} })->to_app;'" Which starts a webserver that serves the current directory over HTTP. You can even pass args like --port 8080 to set the port. (I most recently used this to git clone some library I wrote while at work. They recently blocked github, so I ssh'd to my home machine from my phone, cd ~/projects,…

Also: python -m SimpleHTTPServer or python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000

In Python 3, the module was merged into http.server.

python -m http.server

Re: 25 Even More Slick Linux Commands

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Post by kthxbye »

ndunn2 wrote: post #8

#2 can be replaced with a 'tree' command #3 doesn't work for me on Mac OSX with Bash; the ! is interpreted as the last command. Not sure if this works in other shells #4 is clever, but I would think if you're doing something that complex that you need to recall time and time again you'd make an alias for it. #8 is clever. I love AWK. But not sure when I'd ever use this. The rest were pretty bleh to me. Always looking…

You need to turn on extended globbing for #3 (shopt -s extglob).
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