http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/aix/library/au-badunixhabits.html

http://www.aux-penelope.com/index.htm

http://www.scottklarr.com/tag/cheat-sheets/

Uber editor by Bram Moolenaar. Stands for ‘vi mproved,’ alluding to its heritage from the first visual editor (vi == visual) for Unix.

Key mappings and tips

• K — in normal mode, does a man of the word under the cursor.

Resources

• wikied
  a set of scripts for wiki-style editing with vim
• Vim Cookbook
  some “Recipes” for doing simple — and not so simple — things in vim
• Mastering the vi editor
  From the University of Hawaii, a fine introduction to vi, all of which should apply to vim
• A Markdown syntax file for vim
• vim for PHP programmers, a great slideshow of vim tricks, with focus on editing PHP source.
• (useful) Stupid vim tricks from Slashdot
• Configuring vim right
  Some tips on stuff to put in your .vimrc file

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The Zettabyte File System is a high performance file system from Sun. Apple has announced that the server version of Mac OS X 10.6, “Snow Leopard” will have ZFS support. In addition to the tremendous benefits of adding drives to pools, it could dramatically change the concept of Time Machine. While it’s only been announced for the server version, it could trickle down to client as soon as 10.6.1. HFS+, the current file system for Mac OS, was also first included in a server release, and came down to the client later.

Resources

• Why ZFS Matters to Mac Users
• A PDF overview of ZFS, from the guys that created it.
• Benchmarks comparing ZFS with XFS and Ext4.
• Hate and Counter-Hate concerning the future implementation of ZFS in Mac OS X. It’s incredible to me how short-sighted people can be. Does anyone really believe that software or hardware don’t change? And, if it doesn’t work perfectly now or it’s unnecessary now means that somehow it will never work or be necessary? Sheesh.
• Apple announces ZFS in Snow Leopard
  Money quote: “More capacity. Not more management.”

Strange-looking incantations that can be extremely useful at describing patterns in text. Used all over the place, primarily in Unix tools like grep and vim, and in programming languages like Perl and PHP.

There are two “flavors” of regular expressions, those which conform to the POSIX standard, and those compatible with perl. (the latter are known as Perl-compatible regular expressions; the library many tools link to is known as libpcre).

Also seen shorthand as regexp, or simply re.

Resources

• RegexPal is an interactive JavaScript tester for Regular Expressions
• (Useful) Stupid Regex Tricks from SlashDot.

Netcat is, as the name suggests, cat that runs over TCP/IP. It’s one of those Unix commands that deserves a more prominent place in my toolbox, like, a place in my toolbox. Must. Learn. More.

Resources

• The many uses of netcat from TechRepublic.

• Having fun with netcat has plenty of nice examples.

• A Few Useful Netcat Tricks from the Terminally Incoherent blog gives a nice variety of netcat recipies.

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/117255/

http://www.pixelbeat.org/cmdline.html

http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/05/19/1920231