THE VIDEO SHELF · unix shell
The Unix Chainsaw - Gary Bernhardt
Gary Bernhardt's Cascadia Ruby Conference 2011 talk on using the Unix shell for practical problem solving. He builds pipelines interactively by iterative refinement, using small tools as levers.
Why HN readers recommended it
Recommended as a brilliant demonstration of how to think in Unix pipelines.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- timmonta
- Topic
- unix shell
- Format
- talk
- Level
- intermediate
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 5
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2016–2022
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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From the same person: - The unix chainsaw, how to use tiny tools[1] as lever upon themselves. No absurd wit as in wat. Simply brilliant. [VIDEO] - Also listed above the wat page, [LINK] : boundaries, a whole new world. More abstract wishful thinking. Still …
agumonkey on Hacker News · 2016-04
In Programming blogsGary Bernhardt[1] gave a great talk about practical problem solving with the unix shell: "The Unix Chainsaw"[2]. "Half-assed is OK when you only need half of an ass." In the talk, he gives several demonstrations a key aspect of why unix pipelines are so practically …
pdkl95 on Hacker News · 2019-02
In Problem solving with Unix commands
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