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Developer Tools

jq for Creating and Updating JSON

Here are some examples of using the jq command-line utility to create new JSON data from scratch or update values in an existing JSON document.
DevOps & System Admin.

Five Ways to Spice Up Your Bash Command Prompt

With these tools, you'll be able to delve deeper and customize your Bash prompt to just how you like it.
Developer Tools

Interactively Pipe Commands Together with the Ultimate Plumber

Piping commands together has never been easier than with the Ultimate Plumber, which allows for interactively chaining multiple commands progressively.
Developer Tools

Six Command Line Tools I Use Every Day

Knowing how to use the command line—and how to use it well—is often a necessary skill. Here are a few command line tools I use every day for productivity.
Development Practices

Incrementally Building My Own Code Health Tool

It's simple to build a basic (and upgradable) tool that can help keep your code in good shape. Ours shows areas of the codebase that could be cleaned up, and it discourages committ
Developer Tools

Centralize Your Command Line with fish shell Functions

fish shell uses functions to decrease the reliance on a monolithic config file. It's this approach to functions that makes fish unique.
Developer Tools

Improving Command Line Productivity with GNU Readline

My favorite Readline features for improving my workflow on the command line—keyboard shortcuts, long commands, reverse search, and persisting options.
Developer Tools

Simple Way to Start (and Stop!) Background Processes in Bash

A Bash script to quickly start and stop multiple processes from the command line during development, while running multiple servers and/or clients.
Developer Tools

Tired of Your Shell? Try Zsh!

Zsh is a command line shell, similar to Bash—with many more built-in features. Here are a few of its features that boost my productivity.
Developer Tools

Monitoring Stdout with a Timeout

An example of using expect's timeout feature to wait for specific stdout output coming from a background process.
DevOps & System Admin.

How (and Why) to Log Your Entire Bash History

An easy bit of Bash configuration that will log your bash history to dated log files so you can refer back to them at any point in the future.
DevOps & System Admin.

Bash Completion, Part 2: Programmable Completion

Bash programmable completion lets you create your own custom completion functions – scripts that allow you to tab-complete arguments for specific commands.

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