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i love this person’s work; i’ve been working in the linux sphere for over 20 years but this person always teaches something that’s new to me and more helpful than the tools i’ve been using to get the job done; sed/awk in this case. (plus, the sense of humor also makes it fun to watch).
i wish i were as rich as my fellow software engineers so that i can support her work because i’m convinced we need it in a world where people no longer have the same opportunities i had to learn this kind of tech because their smartphones inadvertently hide needful knowledge in the abstractions that make smartphones work.
She does a great job. Im trying to add in a couple of her videos when I see them into the different communities. I usually go to
awkto be honest, so I completely blanked oncolumns. I knew it existed from like 10 years ago, but forgot what I can use it for. I learned something form this video :)We need more entertaining Linux/open source people.
We need more entertaining Linux/open source people.
i think that this is what sets her apart from most; the sense of humor makes the video edit entertaining to watch like the on screen comments.
Veronica is awesome and deserves a bigger following, no doubt.
I’ve been following her for the past year, it’s a pity she doesn’t have a one time contribution scheme set up. I also can’t support everyone but judging from the donations on KDE people do tend to give small amounts and it really helps. Gonna try to contact her and see if she can accept something like that
inadvertently
I don’t think that word means what you think it means.
you think it’s intentional?
I don’t think they do it to make us dumber (there are other methods for that) but to make it accessible to people who don’t already know better.
So, in this case, inadvertent is correct; Although it’s not without side effects.
my new found media literacy is making me paranoid and OH BOY does this create all sorts of conspiracy rabbit holes for me to get lost into. lol
Do I think it’s intentional that smartphones are ‘dumbed down’ compared to PCs, so as to turn them into devices for mindless consumption of corporate-controlled media instead of devices for empowering user freedom? Yes, yes I do.
then its working very well; i learned this past xmas that my millennial/gen-z&a nephews/nieces are somehow less tech literate than their parents/grandparents.
my well wishing for this channel was in the hopes of reversing this trend, but maybe it’s too little too late.
we need superman; not mr. rogers. lol
I doubt anyone has ever regretted spending some time familiarizing themselves with the POSIX, util-linux, and GNU coreutils commands. You can do a lot by just piping these (mostly) simple tools together.
Something else, all of the GNU coreutils have their own
info [command]terminal command, and often the info page is incredibly easy to read, full of example pages and highly granular descriptions of flags, error messages, and the like.Yeah GNU’s
infopages are often more detailed than themanpages.
Really cool tool
Her mentions of awk reminded me of a guy at my last job who was an absolute god with awk, but making changes to scripts he made were a nightmare because no one else could figure out what he was doing, and everything crashed and burned from small changes.
Sometimes a small python script that is readable is better for long term support.
Awk is ok but often when I come across a script that I need to optimize because it’s too slow, the easiest gains come from replacing awk command. Most of them use awk for the most mundane stuff that can easily be done with shell parameter expansion instead.
Damn, I could’ve avoided hours of scrolling up by now if I knew about this before.
That’s the first time i read about column…
This was a new one for me and I’ve been playing with linux for years. Also really enjoyed her video style so delved into some others.
Thanks for sharing!
Yeah, not sure how I missed this one!
When I first learned Unix (and then Linux) I just went through /usr/bin and looked at the man page for everything.
Then I browsed through the gnu info pages for bash.
There’s no real alternative to RTFM.
Yup, found it just the other day when I wanted to have
ls -loutput in multiple columns instead of a single one.I’m still sore that
column -nts,doesn’t work anymore. My mnemonic for remembering it was “unts, unts, unts” like a dance club beat.Actually looking at the usage text I’m not sure how the
-nflag ever worked for me… Maybe I’m misremembering.Of yes, I have!
alias nfsmounts='mount | grep "nfs" | column'Yeah but I keep trying to pipe the output back into the original file which ends up empty due to how pipe and redirect interact.
I know there must be a grown-up way to do it but I inevitably resort to writing it to filename2 and then running mv filename2 filename.deleted by creator
