Posts categorized in ‘unix’

Make the git diff output be more useful when diffing minified .js and .css files.

I often need to check if a particular executable is present in the PATH before I can proceed with what I am doing in a shell script. Also I need to work with both tcsh and bash scripts. Below presents the different solutions that have worked for these shell scripts for me.

It is quite common knowledge that the basename command is used to get just the file name without its full path.

> basename /home/$USER/file.txt
file.txt

But what wasn’t common knowledge, at least to me, was that basename also accepts a second argument ..

Using mouse to copy/paste in tmux panes.

sed stands for stream editor.

This is the most common way of my sed usage:

echo [SOMETHING] | sed 's/old/NEW/g'

Faster way to send the same command to each and every pane in your tmux session.