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Can you recommend any good primers/tutorials on "Tee's", sockets or pipes in unix/linux? You know - for us "hardware" guys to brush up on? :)

• dragontamer 6y ago
  So I'm not a really good systems guy. Its more like, knowing random stuff sometimes comes in handy. For sockets / pipes / terminal stuff in Unix, I ultimately just had to skim over "Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment" cover-to-cover. There's just a lot of things the UNIX dudes have already implemented with regards to inter-process communications, files, threads, processes, signals, and the like. Once you know what UNIX (and Linux) have to offer, then you can start leveraging it. You don't really need to understand everything, you just need to know things to a level that "I can look it up later when I need it". Again: you're going for breadth, not depth. Skimming over concepts and "remembering them for later". You'll know when you need it, and can come back to the book for depth later on. --------- For "Tee", and "Awk", and "expect", and stuff... I followed blogposts at Linode and Slicehost back in the day which covered a lot of interesting sys-admin tricks. I'm pretty sure the Slicehost pages are lost (the company was bought out by Rackspace years ago. I don't know if any of that stuff was archived) I never was a professional sys-admin. But knowing about Awk, Tee, or various other "standard command-line tools" that web-developers use all the time allows me to script up a lot of things related to testing code, Makefiles, and the like. I basically got that experience from just messing with servers: trying to run my own mail server or web server on the side. Cronjobs, automation, etc. etc.
• hackart 6y ago
  Book recommendation: https://man7.org/tlpi/ https://man7.org/tlpi/ It is available on O'Reilly/Safari