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Great links, though I admit when I saw the OP I was expecting content like that and was pleasantly surprised that they really were "Unix commands I wish I'd dis
by Goladus 13y ago
Great links, though I admit when I saw the OP I was expecting content like that and was pleasantly surprised that they really were "Unix commands I wish I'd discovered years earlier", and not the standard array of unix tips+tricks that you can get by without for awhile but as you become more advanced become second-nature.
"Man ascii." The number of times that I wound up generating my own ascii table from whatever language I was working with...
"xxd" I always either used search in emacs hex-mode (which I find cumbersome and annoying but haven't taken the time to customize), or rolled my own search using a programming language. This would have come in handy SO many times back when I used to muck around with videogame save files and the like. I never even knew it existed nor how to discover that it did.
'cal' I learned about early on so never missed it and the 'ssh' stuff kind of fits into the regular "unix tips and tricks" category.
- WestCoastJustin 13y agore: ascii tables You reminded me of something. There is actually a really cool and simple site called asciiflow [1], which I use all the time to draw diagrams for explaining things in email, etc. It's pretty cool, and was even submitted several times to HN [2, 3]. [1] http://www.asciiflow.com/#Draw http://www.asciiflow.com/#Draw [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2847177 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2847177 [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3598177 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3598177
- hobs 13y agoWow. This is really cool! Not only can you make the ascii drawings, but there is an integration with a service called ditaa (unaffiliated) that then turns your ascii drawings into actual images. I am keeping these. http://ditaa.sourceforge.net/ http://ditaa.sourceforge.net/
- mrb 13y agoI can't browse www.asciiflow.com, the name does not resolve: $ host www.asciiflow.com Host www.asciiflow.com not found: 3(NXDOMAIN) Caused by both authoritative nameservers for asciiflow.com which return the correct answer (a CNAME to ghs.google.com), but with status=NXDOMAIN (wtf?): $ dig +short asciiflow.com ns ns2.123-reg.co.uk. ns.123-reg.co.uk. $ ; <<>> DiG 9.8.1-P1 <<>> @ns2.123-reg.co.uk www.asciiflow.com ; (1 server found) ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 65092 ;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; WARNING: recursion requested but not available ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;www.asciiflow.com. IN A ;; ANSWER SECTION: www.asciiflow.com. 86400 IN CNAME ghs.google.com. ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: google.com. 14400 IN SOA ns.123-reg.co.uk. hostmaster.google.com. 2013052701 86400 0 604800 86400 ;; Query time: 207 msec ;; SERVER: 92.51.159.40#53(92.51.159.40) ;; WHEN: Wed Sep 11 00:27:52 2013 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 123
- chii 13y agoIts really cool that this is a GWT app as well - don't see much of those these days.
- gpvos 13y agoxxd, together with xxd -r, is a rather practical way to turn vim into a hex editor.