Rust - First Steps

Take your first steps with Rust by installing the toolchain and writing your first program.

October 8, 2022 · 2 min · lukefilewalker
programming rust

Redirect Output When You Don't Have Permission to

How to redirect output from a command you’ve run to a file that you don’t have permission to write to i.e. to a destination that you need to use sudo on.

September 2, 2022 · 1 min · lukefilewalker
cli

Fetch Process IDs or Names of the Processes Listening On Ports

Fetch Process IDs or Names of the Processes Listening On Ports.

August 28, 2022 · 2 min · lukefilewalker
cli

Using The File Command to Identify a File

Using the file command to identify a file’s type on a *nix system.

August 8, 2022 · 1 min · lukefilewalker
cli

Fetching Useful Information About Your Storage Disks in the CLI

How to fetch information from the manufacturer and model to temperatures.

May 15, 2022 · 2 min · lukefilewalker
cli

Using an Android Device as a Second Monitor on *nix

Using X forwarding sending an application over to an Android device is relatively painless.

December 5, 2021 · 2 min · lukefilewalker
os

Deleting an Object Property with ES6

How to delete one or more object properties using ES6 syntax.

December 5, 2021 · 1 min · lukefilewalker
programming javascript

Open Reference Material in a Floating Window In Neovim

View reference material in a CLI web browser or via a terminal command in a floating window within Neovim.

November 26, 2021 · 4 min · lukefilewalker
editors

Manually Upgrading All Qt5 Packages on FreeBSD

How to manually upgrade all QT5 packages on FreeBSD with xargs.

October 17, 2019 · 2 min · lukefilewalker
cli os

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

August 2, 2016 · 1 min · lukefilewalker
cli os