Wandering Thoughts archives

2008-12-28:	Discovering things while researching Unix history
2008-12-17:	Some reasons why I like `vi`
2008-12-05:	A little gotcha when implementing shell `read`
2008-11-30:	My view on vi and vim (and nvi et al)
2008-11-18:	Where `vi` runs into its limits
2008-11-09:	The history of Unix `*dump` programs
2008-10-21:	Seeing how remarkable V7 Unix was
2008-10-11:	Forcing sort ordering in Unix shell scripts
2008-09-16:	A Unix without a `test` program
2008-09-10:	A Unix shell trick
2008-08-15:	Using a non-standard shell as your login shell
2008-08-14:	A `bash` irritation: the incompatible `exec`
2008-07-22:	Two different usage patterns
2008-07-17:	The not so secret origins of `/usr/bin` and `/usr/sbin` (and `/sbin`)
2008-06-28:	The other reason that shells should be programmable
2008-06-06:	Why shells should have small programming languages
2008-05-25:	Making a good Unix glue language
2008-05-11:	The history of `readdir()`
2008-04-13:	How I use Firefox's remote control
2008-04-06:	The problem with PID files
2008-03-15:	Why accurately counting committed address space is hard
2008-03-12:	A `bash` irritation: mutable history
2008-02-08:	Why `/usr/local` is now useless (and where it came from)
2008-02-04:	The origins of `/usr/share`
2008-01-23:	The weird effects of Firefox's remote control on Unix
2008-01-02:	The various sorts of backgrounding in Unix

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