Month: February 2018

Flow control in bash

Flow control in bash

It seems like whenever I want to write an if-then or case statement in bash, I spent an hour searching the web and end up finding 12 different suggested ways of doing it. I try them all and maybe one of them works if I’m lucky.

I happened to …

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Moderately advanced searching in Mail

Moderately advanced searching in Mail

Mail offers some moderately powerful searching but it’s not always super obvious. Here are a few really simple things you can do:

Put a search term in quotes (“the owls are not what they seem”) to search for a phrase. Group two tokens to do a simple AND (must be …

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