PHP2Shell(php2shell.com)
26 points by nr378 | 5 comments
PHP2Shell, a website for a tool that appears to provide an interactive shell for PHP; no page content was captured.
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What the heck is /pkg?(anderegg.ca)
73 points by GavinAnderegg | 16 comments
Blog post investigating the mysterious /pkg/env/global/bin PATH entry added in macOS 27.0, with background on path_helper and /etc/paths.
Faster command recall with substring search(dantleech.com)
3 points by speckx | 1 comments
A blog post explaining how to use substring search on shell command history in bash and zsh to recall long commands faster than with the up arrow.
The tilde in your PATH may not be your HOME(disconnect3d.pl)
226 points by arusekk | 144 comments
Blog post explaining that a quoted tilde in a PATH export is not expanded to the home directory in bash/zsh, creating a security risk.
Show HN: Ledge.sh – Runnable Markdown Notes(ledge.sh)
186 points by dancablam | 83 comments
Landing page for Ledge, an open-source Markdown notebook app that runs shell commands, code, and SQL from inside notes, locally or over SSH.
Small programming tricks(will-keleher.com)
606 points by signa11 | 266 comments
A blog post arguing that small nuggets of programming knowledge boost productivity, sharing examples like fzf-powered ctrl+r and python3 -m http.server.
A shell colon does nothing. Use it anyway(refp.se)
370 points by olexsmir | 155 comments
Blog post by Filip Roséen explaining the POSIX shell colon (no-op) builtin and practical tricks for using it in shell scripts.
TIL: You can make HTTP requests without curl using Bash /dev/TCP(mareksuppa.com)
511 points by mrshu | 221 comments
A TIL blog post explaining how to make HTTP requests from a minimal container lacking curl or wget by using Bash's /dev/tcp pseudo-device.
Shell Tricks That Make Life Easier (and Save Your Sanity)(blog.hofstede.it)
564 points by zdw | 246 comments
A blog post sharing practical Unix shell tricks and keyboard shortcuts for bash and other shells to speed up everyday terminal work.
What does " 2>&1 " mean?(stackoverflow.com)
392 points by alexmolas | 226 comments
Stack Overflow question explaining the shell redirection 2>&1, which sends standard error to the same destination as standard output.
Command-line Tools can be 235x Faster than your Hadoop Cluster (2014)(adamdrake.com)
373 points by tosh | 251 comments
A 2014 blog post by Adam Drake showing that shell pipelines on a laptop processed 1.75GB of chess game data about 235x faster than a Hadoop EMR cluster.
Atuin Desktop: Runbooks That Run(blog.atuin.sh)
523 points by freetonik | 138 comments
Announcement post for Atuin Desktop, a doc-like app for executable runbooks with script blocks, embedded terminals, database clients and Prometheus charts.
Fish 4.0: The Fish of Theseus(fishshell.com)
783 points by jdxcode | 162 comments
Fish shell blog post reflecting on porting fish 4.0 from C++ to Rust, covering lessons learned, what went well, and what could have gone better.
Why pipes sometimes get "stuck": buffering(jvns.ca)
343 points by tanelpoder | 85 comments
Julia Evans blog post explaining why Unix pipelines like tail -f | grep | grep appear stuck due to output buffering, and how to fix it.
Useful built-in macOS command-line utilities(weiyen.net)
748 points by yen223 | 207 comments
A blog post by Wei Yen listing interesting built-in macOS command-line utilities, such as accessing the Keychain programmatically.
`find` + `mkdir` is Turing complete(ogiekako.vercel.app)
376 points by thunderbong | 93 comments
Blog post demonstrating that a system with only GNU find and mkdir is Turing complete, via loops, FizzBuzz, and a Rule 110 implementation.
test, [, and [[ (2020)(jmmv.dev)
492 points by mattrighetti | 218 comments
Blog post by Julio Merino explaining the Unix test and [ binaries and how they differ from the shell's [[ builtin.
CLI text processing with GNU awk(learnbyexample.github.io)
360 points by asicsp | 118 comments
Introductory chapter of the free online book 'CLI text processing with GNU awk', covering awk syntax and filtering examples.
GNU Parallel, where have you been all my life?(alexplescan.com)
380 points by alexpls | 192 comments
Blog post describing how the author used GNU Parallel to repeatedly run long end-to-end tests and gather pass/fail statistics on flakiness.
Try: run a command and inspect its effects before changing your live system(github.com)
1029 points by espressoRunner | 179 comments
GitHub repository for try, a tool that runs a shell command in an overlay sandbox so its filesystem effects can be inspected before committing them.