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Monthly Archives: July 2008

I got it goin’ on

17-Jul-08

And what does “it” refer to in this case? Well, several things:
First I’m heading off Paris and Ghent in a couple hours. I most certainly won’t be blogging, and probably not much twittering either. If anything I might update my Facebook status or throw something on my zany new tumblog.
Of course this [...]

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Learning the Terminal on the Mac - Part 3 - Basic File Operations

17-Jul-08

By now you hopefully have a good understanding about how to reference files with paths and list files using ls, and move around with cd. Now we’re going to go over basic file operations including:

Create
Copy
Move
Delete

There is a lot of information to cover this time around, but I want to make one quick note about [...]

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Learning the Terminal on the Mac - Part 2 - The Shell and Paths

08-Jul-08

In the first article we learned how to launch Terminal and get started using the shell. Also we covered some basic commands for moving around, including cd, pwd and ls.
In this action-packed episode, we are going to take a closer look at directories and paths. Usually. I would try to cover material in [...]

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