Tag: Command-line interface

• Give yourself a Christmas present: learn sed

  Text is at the core of The Unix Way – and all True Unix Hackers work from the command line. This much you know. (If you don’t get a copy of The Art of Unix Programming – there is an awful lot of rubbish in that book but it does do one thing well: explain…

  Adrian McMenamin

  December 14, 2013

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  Bell Labs, Big Data, Command-line interface, Editors, Emacs, Linux, mac osx, programming, sed, Unix, vi, XML

• A GUI for Metapost?

  I have sort-of abandoned my Apple Air Book for serious work this last week – going back to a 2008/9 Toshiba laptop (another Morgan Computers purchase) running Linux. The Apple is a lovely device to travel with and is beautiful, if extremely expensive, device with which to browse the web, but a decade of conditioning…

  Adrian McMenamin

  January 12, 2013

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  Apple, Command-line interface, Graphical user interface, Linux, MetaPost, Operating Systems

• It’s Friday afternoon…

  …and I could really do with an answer to this question I have posted over on “Superuser”:     I am seeking to back up an encrypted volume used by Virtual Box on one OS X machine to another using rsync (I will eventually stick this into cron). This is the command line (I am…

  Adrian McMenamin

  October 5, 2012

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  Command-line interface, Linux, Mac OS X, Ubuntu, VirtualBox