Month: December 2008

For years I have been doing this: $ tar -cf nameOfTarFileToBeCreated directoryToBeTarred$ gzip nameOfTarFileToBeCreated This results in a gzip archive named nameOfTarFileToBeCreated.gz. Last week I found a command to do it one step: $ tar -cz directoryToBeTarGzipped > nameOfTarGzipArchiveToCreate e.g. $ tar -cz kgreenwell > kgreenwell.tar.gz instead of: $ tar -cf kgreenwell.tar kgreenwell$ gzip kgreenwell.tar…

If Programming Languages Were Religions. Awesome. My favorite is Perl: Perl would be Voodoo – An incomprehensible series of arcane incantations that involve the blood of goats and permanently corrupt your soul. Often used when your boss requires you to do an urgent task at 21:00 on friday night. That, or you’re trying to solve…