April 24, 2013 | 0 comments
After spending a few hours last night switching between three different branches in the ack2 project, and typing “git br” over and over, I decided I needed to put branch status in my bash prompt. The only question was: Which … Continue reading
April 19, 2013 | 6 Comments
ack 2.0 has been released. ack is a grep-like search tool that has been optimized for searching large heterogeneous trees of source code. ack has been around since 2005. Since then it has become very popular and is packaged by … Continue reading
April 19, 2012 | 30 Comments
Whenever people talk about ack, there’s always a discussion of whether ack is faster than grep, and how much faster, and people provide data points that show “I searched this tree with find+grep in 8.3 seconds, and it took ack … Continue reading
October 16, 2011 | 0 comments
Tired of hearing that “Steve Jobs was just a marketer, Dennis Ritchie was a real programmer.” Both men were necessary to our industry’s growth. It’s not a competition. The difference in media coverage of each was more about the visibility … Continue reading
October 13, 2011 | 1 Comment
Dennis Ritchie, pioneer of programming, creator of the C programming language and one of the creators of UNIX, has died. Tim Bray said it best: “It is impossible — absolutely impossible — to overstate the debt my profession owes to Dennis Ritchie. I’ve been … Continue reading
July 10, 2011 | 6 Comments
Beginners to Unix/Linux learn about the touch command as a way to create an empty file. $ ls -l /tmp/foo ls: /tmp/foo: No such file or directory $ touch /tmp/foo $ ls -l /tmp/foo -rw-r–r– 1 andy wheel 0 Jul … Continue reading