A collection of tech learnings.
Manually Upgrading All Qt5 Packages on Freebsd
How to manually upgrade all QT5 packages on FreeBSD with xargs.
Creating an Empty File in *nix as Well as Windows in the cli
How to create an empty file from the cli in *nix as well as Windows
Counting the Lines of Code in Your Project
How to count the lines of code in your coding project.
Get Your External IP Address From the cli
How to get your external IP address on the cli.
Delete All Files Except for a Particular Extension
How to delete all the files in the current directory except for files of a certain extension.
Using Sed to Find and Replace a String in a File
Find and replace using the *nix tool sed.
Copy and Paste to and From the Clipboard in the Cli
How to copy and paste to and from the clipboard while working in the cli.
Getting a List of Files in a Directory
How to display a single column list of all the files in a directory.
Inserting Command Line Results Directly Into Vim
Inserting the output of a shell command directly into your current vim buffer.
Paging Through Large Result Sets in the MySQL Cli
How to page through large result sets when working with the MySQL command line tool.