Tag Archives: CLI

Watching a fork bomb explode

Posted on June 10, 2009 by Samuel Huckins

Fork bombs are simple pieces of programming logic that can bring down the mightiest of servers in seconds (in fact, the faster the server, the faster it goes down). They are quite easy to protect against, but some operating systems … Continue reading →

Posted in Security | Tagged CLI, Linux, Security, sysadmin | 2 Comments

More efficient HTML editing in vim

Posted on May 9, 2009 by Samuel Huckins

When I’m writing HTML and CSS, being forced to type out repetitive and fixed syntax, as well as remembering the particularities of the syntax and its formatting, makes me rather unhappy. Not to mention less productive. Let’s fix that. HTML … Continue reading →

Posted in CLI, Programming | Tagged CLI, CSS, efficiency, HTML, Programming, vim | 1 Comment

Useful ways to list directory contents

Posted on May 2, 2009 by Samuel Huckins

The ls command becomes second nature once you work in a Linux command line environment for any appreciable period of time. Commonly, it seems, people simply stick with the plain vanilla command, without exploring its rich options, as well as … Continue reading →

Posted in CLI | Tagged Bash, CLI, Linux | 3 Comments

Easily sum matching file line counts

Posted on April 29, 2009 by Samuel Huckins

This command will return the number of total lines contained in files ending in .py in the directory it is run in, as well as subdirectories: 12find . -type f -iname *py | xargs -I str wc -l str | … Continue reading →

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Printing tabular data attractively in Python

Posted on April 28, 2009 by Samuel Huckins

Have you ever looked for a tool several times, not found what you wanted, then one fine day discover exactly what you were looking for by accident? I had just such an experience… Not too infrequently in command line Python … Continue reading →