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Everybody gets caught the first time: uniq filters repeated lines – but only if they follow each other.

The Personal Kanban book came with a feeling of déjà vu: I had already been doing all that with my books!

My previous post reminded me of a similar problem: how do you split a file based on its content?

It’s an old trick, use sort | uniq -c to count the unique lines from a file: $ cat animals.txt cats cats cats dogs birds cats dogs dogs birds dogs dogs birds $ cat animals.txt | sort | uniq -c 3 birds 4 cats 5 dogs uniq -c does the counting, but it has…

The bash-completion package adds a bunch of useful features, but it also limits what happens when you press tab.

which -a The command which is not a revelation, most people are aware of it.

This is the kind of thing you don’t need until you really do: -f file, --file=file Read one or more newline separated patterns from file.

Trying to read badly-formatted JSON is just a waste of time.

Why does this work?

Ruby characters are characters placed on top of Chinese characters to show pronunciation.

“I wish all these temporary directories wouldn’t clutter my home directory.”

ImageOptim is software that makes me happy.

Syntastic is great.

First it was Blogger, then Wordpress.