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Using the Unix command ‘sed’ with URLs

Posted on June 14, 2011 by richard

I’m an “old school” Unix user, who grew up on sed, awk & Sendmail, but many people still use sed & its syntax from the Unix or Linux command-line daily, so this is a quick note on how to use … Continue reading →

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Old School way of viewing Unix Man pages

Posted on May 25, 2011 by richard

“nroff -man /path/to/manpage.man | more”. ie: they’re just nroff formatted text files. The files are often gzip compressed on disk nowadays, so on Linux, the command pipeline to (say) the ls command’s man page from a shell prompt is: zcat … Continue reading →

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