As developers, we’re expected to know a lot of random things. Sure, you can learn data structures and algorithms from a CS class, and you can learn frameworks from online tutorials or a bootcamp, but what about the other things? How to be more effective on the command line? How to increase productivity on your […]
Tools
Command line manual pages and tldr
When looking into command line … commands, you’ve probably seen the man command, which is short for manual. For instance, if I want to know all about the ls command I can run man ls, which returns this on my mac: That’s a lot of info, and the screenshot above just the tip of the […]
Grep, grep options, and grep’s faster open-source alternative: ripgrep
Tldr: Grep In large codebases just finding the things you need can be hard. The built-in solution on linux/unix is grep. The basic format is grep {search_term} {file_path}. Here are a few simple examples: Here are a few commonly-used useful flags for grep: Flag Effect -i makes search case-insensitive -r recursively search directories -n show […]