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I have been struggling with this weird behavior in vim for the last month or so. I just re-joined Automattic in September. I have been using vim on many different computers and environments (linux, max, cygwin) for over 15 years, and I have never experienced this before. I only seem to have this issue when […]

I ran into a git issue today where I thought I was ready to push a recent commit, and the push failed, saying that I was in the middle of a rebase. I don’t remember starting a rebase, but maybe I did. I tried git rebase –continue, but that didn’t work, so then I tried […]

I recently came across some AWK code from a work colleague that I did not understand at all awk -F’\t’ -v OFS=’\t’ ‘FNR==NR{a[$1]=$1;next};$1 in a{print $1,$2,$3}’ file1 file2 I usually like to understand code instead of blindly copying and pasting, so I did a little research into what this was doing. Searching for “awk FNR […]

I was reading a shell script today and came across the trap command, which I was not aware of. Some googling led me to this article: How “Exit Traps” Can Make Your Bash Scripts Way MoreRobust And Reliable , which has a really nice explanation. Basically, trap acts sort of like a finally block in […]