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Zsh and Fish’s simple but clever trick for highlighting missing linefeeds (vidarholen.net)
474 points by ingve on June 14, 2020 | past | 129 comments
The curious pitfalls in shell redirections to $((I++)) (vidarholen.net)
3 points by ingve on April 6, 2020 | past
Lessons learned from writing ShellCheck (vidarholen.net)
307 points by r4um on Feb 9, 2020 | past | 46 comments
An Empirical Investigation into Programming Language Syntax (PDF, 2013) (vidarholen.net)
3 points by open-source-ux on Sept 15, 2019 | past
Tricking the tricksters with a next level fork bomb (vidarholen.net)
2 points by signa11 on June 26, 2019 | past
Tricking the tricksters with a next level fork bomb (vidarholen.net)
2 points by l2dy on June 11, 2019 | past
Tricking the tricksters with a next level fork bomb (vidarholen.net)
3 points by ingve on June 10, 2019 | past
A shell script that deleted a database, and how ShellCheck could have helped (vidarholen.net)
2 points by zdw on April 5, 2019 | past
A shell script that deleted a database, and how ShellCheck could have helped (vidarholen.net)
4 points by ingve on March 27, 2019 | past
Useless Use of dd (vidarholen.net)
2 points by sndean on Jan 8, 2019 | past
So what exactly is -ffunction-sections and how does it reduce binary size? (vidarholen.net)
1 point by koala_man on July 18, 2018 | past
ShellCheck on armv6hf: crossless compilers and the value of split sections (vidarholen.net)
3 points by ingve on July 15, 2018 | past
Parameterized Color Cell Compression (vidarholen.net)
2 points by ingve on April 18, 2018 | past
Bash arithmetic contexts: the white collar eval (vidarholen.net)
1 point by koala_man on Feb 20, 2018 | past
An ode to pack: gzip’s forgotten decompressor (vidarholen.net)
200 points by ingve on Oct 23, 2017 | past | 52 comments
ShellCheck and shadowed case branches (vidarholen.net)
2 points by ingve on Sept 18, 2017 | past
Buffers and windows: The mystery of ‘ssh’ and ‘while read’ in excessive detail (vidarholen.net)
2 points by rbanffy on July 7, 2017 | past
Overwriting Hard Drive Data: The Great Wiping Controversy (2008) [pdf] (vidarholen.net)
42 points by Tomte on July 3, 2017 | past | 20 comments
Buffers and windows: The mystery of ‘ssh’ and ‘while read’ in excessive detail (vidarholen.net)
3 points by ingve on July 2, 2017 | past
[ -z $var ] works unreasonably well (vidarholen.net)
169 points by ingve on April 23, 2017 | past | 95 comments
Overwriting Hard Drive Data: The Great Wiping Controversy (2008) [pdf] (vidarholen.net)
1 point by Tomte on March 30, 2017 | past
Swearing in the Linux kernel: now interactive (vidarholen.net)
27 points by yitchelle on Jan 8, 2017 | past | 1 comment
Dd is not a disk writing tool (2015) (vidarholen.net)
359 points by Ianvdl on Jan 8, 2017 | past | 198 comments
Overwriting Hard Drive Data: The Great Wiping Controversy (2008) [pdf] (vidarholen.net)
3 points by Tomte on Nov 20, 2016 | past
Show HN: Graph occurence of any words over time in the Linux kernel (vidarholen.net)
2 points by koala_man on Sept 22, 2016 | past
Solutions to some various Linux problems (vidarholen.net)
3 points by aburan28 on July 4, 2016 | past
Overwriting Hard Drive Data: The Great Wiping Controversy (2008) [pdf] (vidarholen.net)
1 point by Tomte on Feb 14, 2016 | past
One write is enough to securely erase a hard drive [pdf] (vidarholen.net)
1 point by cba9 on Dec 1, 2015 | past
Adventures in String Reversal (vidarholen.net)
1 point by ehamberg on Oct 1, 2013 | past
Bash Invaders (vidarholen.net)
4 points by xxtjaxx on Sept 3, 2013 | past

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