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

Counting the Lines of Code in Your Project

How to count the lines of code in your coding project.

May 5, 2016 · 1 min · lukefilewalker
programming

Get Your External IP Address From the CLI

How to get your external IP address on the CLI.

December 28, 2015 · 1 min · lukefilewalker
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.

December 15, 2015 · 1 min · lukefilewalker
cli

Using Sed to Find and Replace a String in a File

Find and replace using the *nix tool sed.

November 27, 2015 · 1 min · lukefilewalker
cli

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.

October 23, 2015 · 2 min · lukefilewalker
cli

Getting a List of Files in a Directory

How to display a single column list of all the files in a directory.

May 8, 2015 · 1 min · lukefilewalker
cli

Inserting Command Line Results Directly Into Vim

Inserting the output of a shell command directly into your current vim buffer.

March 24, 2015 · 1 min · lukefilewalker
editors

Paging Through Large Result Sets in the MySQL CLI

How to page through large result sets when working with the MySQL command line tool.

March 23, 2015 · 1 min · lukefilewalker
databases

Remove Trailing Whitespace in Vim

How to remove trailing whitespace in a file with vim.

January 30, 2015 · 1 min · lukefilewalker
editors