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Re: Linux Productivity Tools (2019) [pdf]

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This is an awesome deck. I'll be bookmarking this as a great resource to pass along. Tangent: although the portability and consistency of PDFs is nice, I'd love a browser extension that gave me a nicer view of slides that were exported as a PDF. I find there's something more satisfying about discrete pagination vs continuous scroll for these types of things.

Foxit does pagination.

Re: Linux Productivity Tools (2019) [pdf]

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I absolutely love this sort of thing. I am a sysadmin with something like 30 years experience. I am as passionate about the subject as anyone but I lack some presentation skills and possibly imagination. I'm also old enough to know what I lack!

Why not give open source stuff a go?

Re: Linux Productivity Tools (2019) [pdf]

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Wow. Well, I wish I would have known abut GNU parallel before I wrote that massive bash script a few years ago. Thanks for posting this.

Learning more unix tools tends to lead to that feeling a lot. The last few decades of devs building tools generally means that most obvious problems have a solution, but of course one usually only learns about that solution after hacking together their own version:) One tip: Look up moreutils; it's a nice consolidation of things that make a lot of things easier. (One gotcha: moreutils ships its own different parallel tool.)

Re: Linux Productivity Tools (2019) [pdf]

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post #4

Its table of contents doesn't do it justice. this is a great deck! super dense and straightforward. my tiny tip to contribute: for those who could never be bothered to remember the ctrl-commands for traversing words, but are familiar with `vi`-style movements: you can go one step above the suggestion in this deck with `set -o vi`.

the great thing about this is you dont even need vim, its built into bash.

Re: Linux Productivity Tools (2019) [pdf]

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post #4

Its table of contents doesn't do it justice. this is a great deck! super dense and straightforward. my tiny tip to contribute: for those who could never be bothered to remember the ctrl-commands for traversing words, but are familiar with `vi`-style movements: you can go one step above the suggestion in this deck with `set -o vi`.

Thanks for the praise. The slides are kind of a summary of everything I learned here at HN over the years. Feels great to be on the front page. Definitely going to brag about it for a few years :).

Re: Linux Productivity Tools (2019) [pdf]

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post #4

Its table of contents doesn't do it justice. this is a great deck! super dense and straightforward. my tiny tip to contribute: for those who could never be bothered to remember the ctrl-commands for traversing words, but are familiar with `vi`-style movements: you can go one step above the suggestion in this deck with `set -o vi`.

> you can go one step above the suggestion in this deck with `set -o vi`

Highly recommended if you use Vim regularly (and you can define the same escape key(s) for your terminal and vim instance). For me that was one of the biggest productivity boosts when doing editing and command line work.

Re: Linux Productivity Tools (2019) [pdf]

#20
One useful thing when managing one's time is to know when a command will complete. I have a habit of using "pv" anywhere I wait for a result so that I know how long it takes:

http://www.ivarch.com/programs/pv.shtml

It's basically "cat", but with a progress bar. Also useful for measuring IO speed and volume (e.g. decompression: `pv -c largefile | gzip | pv -c > /dev/null` )

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