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No_color

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The weird world of Windows file paths

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The terminal escape sequences ocean is deep and dark

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Unix's special way of marking login shells goes back to V2 Unix (at least)

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Dotfiles being hidden is a UNIXv2 mistake (2012)

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Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

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Everything you ever wanted to know about terminals

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Unix command line conventions over time

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-h –Help -help Help –? –?

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The Unexpected Importance of the Trailing Slash

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No_color

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Grep flags – the good stuff

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You shouldn't parse the output of ls(1)

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The growth of command line options, 1979-Present (2020)

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Which is not Posix

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Why do long options start with two dashes? (2019)

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Confusing Grep Mistakes I've Made

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It used to be simpler to teach Unix

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Conventions for Command Line Options

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The Poetics of CLI Command Names

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If you use GNU grep on text files, use the -a (--text) option

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WhyTheName

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Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

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The growth of command-line options, 1979-Present

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A common mistake involving wildcards and the find command

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Improving CLIs with isatty

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Maybe We Should Stop Creating Inscrutable CLIs

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Escape the scripter mentality if reliability matters (2011)

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Elasticsearch for Offensive Security (2018)

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Fixing Unix/Linux/Posix Filenames (2009)

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The -a to -z of Command-Line Options (2003)

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The origins of XXX as FIXME

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Unix Is Not an Acceptable Unix (2015)

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Zendesk and the Art of Trademark Trolling

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In defense of Unix

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Unix is not an acceptable Unix

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Grepping logs is still terrible

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Why the name?

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An Introduction to Unix (2014)

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Filenames and Pathnames in Shell: How to Do It Correctly (2010)

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A Markov chain trained on the Puppet documentation and H. P. Lovecraft

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Fixing Unix Filenames (2012)

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Schrödinger's 😻 and outside-the-box naming

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Underscores are stupid

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Find is a beautiful tool

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I always forget the argument order of the `ln -s` command

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Relative shell script includes with realpath on FreeBSD

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The Linux Command Line

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Abusing url handling in iTerm2 and Hyper for code execution

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Why you shouldn't parse the output of ls(1)

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Why not parse `ls` and what to do instead

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Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

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