Stop using those hard to remember octal values to set file permissions on your system. Come with me into the 21st century and I’ll show you how to chmod the easy way!

Here’s a neat trick about the command line you might not know. You can use curly braces to generate multiple arguments for a command.

This is one of the first projects I completed right after learning to use BASH, AWK and other GNU coreutils. It is a very basic linter type of program for CNC machine code. It is tailored for the specific wireless DNC system I use a Chesterton, so it may or may not be useful for anyone else. This was mostly just an exercise in creating a program. I got some help with the AWK part from a friend and former Linux system administrator.