the past can’t be changed
you only fail if you quit
sometimes “no” means “not right now”
their opinions don’t define your reality
happiness is found within
doors close so better ones can open
be yourself unapologetically
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There is a bit of a debate in some circles about using xargs vs. the -exec {} option that’s built into find itself. To me, however, it’s not much of a debate; -exec isn’t nearly as good as xargs for what I use find for. I tend to use it to perform tasks involving many files. &ldquo...
If you want to search files by a pattern and then apply something to the results you have at least two choices. You can use find. -exec or you can pipe the results to xargs. There are also two different choices for find -exec and find | xargs that will have a dramatic impact on performance. So what ...
What is the xargs command in UNIX?
The xargs command in UNIX is a command line utility for building an execution pipeline from standard input. Whilst tools like grep can accept standard input as a parameter, many other tools cannot. Using xargs allows tools like echo and rm and mkdir to accept stan...
We use sed to work with text files like log files, configuration files, and other text files.
In this post, we are going to focus on the sed Linux command, which is used for text manipulation, which is an essential step in our bash scripting journey.
Linux system provides some tools for text proce...
Sometimes you need something powerful, giving you more control to process data. This is where awk command comes in.
The awk command or GNU awk in specific provides a scripting language for text processing. With awk scripting language, you can make the following:
Define variables.
Use string and...
Whiptail is a program that allows shell scripts to display dialog boxes to the user for informational purposes, or to get input from the user in a friendly way. Whiptail is included by default on Debian.
From the Linux Dictionary: whiptail is a "dialog" replacement using newt instead of ncurses.
Fr...
What's this?
The Night-City version of Hotodogo inspired by Cyberpunk 2077. Not finished yet.
