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Miguel Rentes
Personal blog · rentes.github.ioprogrammingsystems
Miguel Rentes writes Clean Coding, a personal blog at rentes.github.io about programming and systems. Since 2016, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Moreutils: The utilities package every Unix/Linux/Mac OS developer should know”. The last post was in 2017, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Miguel Rentes's posts on moreutils, a Unix utilities collection. Commenters cite them for installing moreutils and for a list of its lesser-known tools such as chronic, ifne and errno.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Miguel Rentes' personal blog about Software construction and related topics.
Most-linked posts?
- Moreutils: The utilities package every Unix/Linux/Mac OS developer should know7 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2016-07-02
What Hacker News says?
If you're on a Mac or a system that doesn't have sponge installed by default, use moreutils to install. https://joeyh.name/code/moreutils/ https://rentes.github.io/unix/utilities/2015/07/27/moreutils...
Comment linking /unix/utilities/2015/07/27/moreutils-package/
on “Detecting the use of "curl | bash" server-side”Submitted Moreutils: The utilities package every Unix/Linux/Mac OS developer should know as a story · 44 points
HN discussionIn case anyone was wondering, the moreutils tools: chronic: runs a command quietly unless it fails combine: combine the lines in two files using boolean operations errno: look up errno names and descriptions ifdata: get network interface info without parsing ifconfig output ifne: run a program if the standard input is not empty isutf8: check if a file or standard input is utf-8 lckdo: execute a program with a lock h…
Comment linking /unix/utilities/2015/07/27/moreutils-package/
on “Hidden gems of moreutils”Submitted Moreutils: The utilities package every Linux developer should know (2015) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionA more detailed post on the subject: https://rentes.github.io/unix/utilities/2015/07/27/moreutils...
Comment linking /unix/utilities/2015/07/27/moreutils-package/
on “moreutils”Submitted Moreutils: The utilities package every Unix/Linux developer should know (2015) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIt's code. There is not necessarily a single solution that makes sense. The thing you're calling could throw an exception, or it could return a failure value. If it fails, you may want to set off some extra routine that retries, or perhaps you want to handle some specific errors and retry or notify, but other errors are critical and cause failure, not just notification. Having it handle those automatically is not a…
Comment linking /unix/utilities/2015/07/27/moreutils-package/
on “Deno Cron”Submitted Moreutils: The utilities package every Unix/Linux/Mac OS developer should know as a story · 2 points
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