References to Unix and Linux over time, according to Google's ngram viewer
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Diagram of the bash brace expression

{w,t,}h{e{n{,ce{,forth}},re{,in,fore,with{,al}}},ither,at}
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Replying to @AlgebraFact
If you stick two squares on the longer side of a silver rectangle, you get another silver rectangle.
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Set intersection and difference at the command line

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Evil Mode: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Emacs youtu.be/JWD1Fpdd4Pc
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Doing a database join with CSV files

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Have you ever wished your bash script could print out a snake, a flying saucer, or a nose? Of course you have. Who hasn't? Well, now you can. These symbols have been included in Unicode 17.0.
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Thank you for following @UnixToolTip
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DITAA is a programming language for creating diagrams.

The source code is an ASCII art version of the output.

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The comm utility lets you compute set differences and intersections

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Automate to save mental energy, not time

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Using GPG to encode binary files as text

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Avoiding Multiprocessing Errors in Bash Shell

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Example of how Unicode surrogates work.
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Evil Mode: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Emacs youtu.be/JWD1Fpdd4Pc
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“Add icons to commands, so you can instantly recognize them on up arrows:”
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Grok: Draw an image of me based on my tweets
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Replying to @UnixToolTip
Data files for drawing other animals are Perl files with a .cow extension.

$ cat /usr/share/cowsay/cows/elephant.cow
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The cowsay command has flags to let you draw animals other than cows.

$ cowsay -f elephant With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk. -- John von Neumann
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Command line productivity tool of the day: cowsay
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Perl is like a muscle car: lots of fun when things go well, but dangerous.
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Working with wide text files at the command line johndcook.com/blog/2019/08/2…
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For daily tips on regular expressions, follow @RegexTip.
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Programs with verbose start-up messages interrupt your workflow at the command line.

How to fix that: johndcook.com/blog/2019/09/0…
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