Backwards Progress

Building a progress indicator for the Comm utility

Today I found myself needing to use the comm utility to compare two 20GB files. This ended up taking about 10 minutes and while it was running I got curious at how much time was left. Knowing that comm must read through…

Bash: Argument Parsing

One parser to rule them all

Bash is a wonderful and terrible language. It can provide extremely elegant solutions to common text processing and system management tasks, but it can also drag you into the depths of convoluted workarounds to accomplish menial jobs.

Git: Simple Push Deploys

Use Git hooks to create your own push deployment pipeline