4 articles tagged “command-line”.
Most shell scripts work fine until a file name has a space in it or a command fails halfway through. Learn strict mode, quoting, safe temporary files and cleanup traps, then put it all together in a real backup script.
Turn a messy trail of WIP commits into a clean, reviewable history with git rebase -i. Squash, reword, reorder, split and drop commits, and let fixup commits do the cleanup for you.
Open the .git folder and see Git for what it is: a content-addressed object store with movable pointers on top. Build a commit by hand and finally understand rebase, reset and the reflog.
Navigate, search, inspect and manage a Linux system with confidence. A practical tour of the commands developers reach for every day.