#BashTricks
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #BashTricks from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
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Day-by-day usage
measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-09-07 22:58 UTC0 uses by 0 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
Related hashtags
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Live pulse
measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-09-07 22:58 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 12 public posts (spanning ~30321 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 16:00
Languages: English (9) · German (2) · Polish (1)
Avg boosts / post: 2.7
Top of the latest posts
Still my favorite lesser known Bash feature is glob expansion during editing. Type echo *.txt And then press Ctrl-X followed by star, expression will be expanded and then you can remove items you'd like to exclude (either inside bash or pre
Sometimes zip files are rude and don't have a top directory. Here's a one-liner to unzip a bunch of archives into directories named after each file: ``` for f in *.zip; do unzip -d ${f/.zip/} $f; done ``` #bashTricks #shTricks #shellTricks
cut(1) and paste(1) were designed to work together. ``` paste <(cut -f1 file1) <(cut -f3 file2) ``` #bashTricks
#bashtricks across platforms
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