Xargs – Unix power tool

One of my favourite unix utilities is the xargs command. From the man page; The xargs utility reads space, tab, newline and end-of-file delimited strings from the standard input and executes utility with the strings as arguments. Any arguments specified on the command line are given to utility upon each invocation, followed by some number of the …

Firefox 30 vs. Chrome

  I tried. Really I did. Inspired by yet another one of those, “Oh Noes - Google Owns my Entire Life” posts on Hacker News, I installed Firefox 30 and used it as my main browser for a week. At the end of the week, I hurried back to Google Chrome. Here are some of …