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Terminal Commands For Beginners

June 5, 2023June 1, 2023 by Carlos

Let’s go over some terminal commands for Beginners. This assumes you have basic computer knowledge and might have some sort of interest in software development. Terminal commands, especially those for linux systems, will get you pretty far. My Setup MacOS Opening Your Terminal On a mac hit command+space. This will open a search window. My … Read more

Execute Bash Commands and Return Results in Python

January 4, 2023July 1, 2022 by Carlos

I’ve had numerous cases where I’ve needed to execute bash commands and return the results in Python for some additional manipulation. My most recent example involved me working with BigQuery schemas. Getting schemas from the CLI was easy peasy but I’m not the best at BASH programming so I naturally turned to something more familiar … Read more

Listing the Largest N Files or Folders Recursively

July 17, 2022August 6, 2021 by Carlos

Listing the largest N files or folders recursively is handy. Let’s frame a usecase. So, you’re Ubuntu server is tanking. You’re running Jenkins or something else and your job logs have just started piling up. You’re UI doesn’t work anymore and the only thing you can do is SSH into your instance. What do you … Read more

Change Directory on a Mac, Linux, or Windows Machine

June 13, 2023February 11, 2020 by Carlos

We’ll be showing you how to change directory on a Mac, Windows, or Linux machine. Need to do something to a file on the terminal? Need to delete an entire folder and its children on the command line like I show here? Well first you might want to get to the same directory where it’s … Read more