Nix Geek

Author: Bugfish

To sudo or not to sudo

That is the question. Well, not to most people. I have some views on sudo that I think are unusual. I like to pretend that I am ‘anti-sudo’, because I’ve been around since before sudo, and when you wanted to do something as root, you became root, dammit. In reality, I think sudo has three […]

Search and Replace in vi

Speaking of vi(m) tips, I’m quite fond of search and replace from within vi. The syntax is very similar to sed’s search and replace, and uses regex the same way. To do a simple replacement of all instances of “snoogins” with “snoochieboochies” you would want to type this while in command mode. :%s/snoogins/snoochieboochies/g Like sed, […]

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