<div dir="ltr">Good on you.<div><br></div><div>It's funny how infinite is the ocean of command line utilities, e.g. as a long time user of the command line:</div><div>1. I only learned about "grep -r" 8 years ago (in my first workplace in Australia)</div>
<div>2. I only discovered that "less -R" (capital "R") is much better for viewing and searching colorised text files than "less -r" (lower case "r") a couple of weeks ago.</div><div>
3. two days ago I found how to make "awk" access environment variables (through ENVIRON["VARIABLENAME"]), though I knew what I was looking for.</div><div>4. Only a short while ago I learned a trick to script "echo line >> root-only-writable-file" by replacing it with "echo line | sudo tee -a root-only-writable-file".</div>
<div><br></div><div>And the list goes on and on.</div><div><br></div><div>The take away? Command line veterans can also benefit and enjoy such a meeting by learning and sharing their own knowledge. Wish I could attend.</div>
<div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 18 August 2013 03:09, Eli Billauer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eli@billauer.co.il" target="_blank">eli@billauer.co.il</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Monday, August 19th at 18:30, Haifux will gather to hear a talk by Eli Billauer:<br>
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Command-line utilities: Tips and tricks (part II)<br>
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Command-line utilities is the real power of a Linux computer, and yet there's always a few useful utilities that even an experienced Linux user doesn't know about. This meeting is dedicated to going through several random utilities, some of which are less known, others are known but have surprising possibilities.<br>
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The range goes from things as simple as using "touch" to fake a modification date to using ssh for surfing the web (with your browser) as if your computer was in another country.<br>
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No previous knowledge is required. Even though newbies will gain the most of this meeting, there is also room for those more familiar with the shell prompt. Those who want to take the stand for a few minutes to talk about a utility are welcome, of course.<br>
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There will be no slides during this meetings, just a shell window for demonstrations.<br>
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For the list of suggested topics that may or may not be covered:<br>
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We meet in Taub building, room 6. For instructions see:<br>
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Attendance is free, and you are all invited!<br>
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Future lectures:<br>
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02/09/13 You & The Biometric Database: Jonathan J. Klinger<br>
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