Update

Welp. My brain reached for the name of the tool used to show the process identification numbers (PIDs) for processes using various ports.
But, it couldn't come up right away with fuser.

So, here I am, leaving a memento of sorts to help me.

Getting older, have a lot beyond …

A candidate installment of the mostly-only-imagined series Command-line arcana**

Perhaps the most arcane invocation I regularly direct into a terminal emulator window these last few years is:

mv !$??* !$

Those familiar with the intricacies of bash, particularly history expansion and parameter expansion patterns, probably won't be challenged by this very much …

I went to startup vim just now because I wanted to see the charity solicitation message that runs when it starts up. Turns out I don't have vim proper installed.

$ vim

Command 'vim' not found, but can be installed with:

sudo apt install vim       
sudo apt install vim-gtk3  
sudo apt …

The bot in the #git channel on freenode holds links to recommended reading. A couple of these were invoked in the last week or so not long before I wandered into the channel (via Esc A in irssi) so I was able to notice them.

One of them is a …

In this case, "-ux" isn't meant to refer to these dmesg(1) options

   -u, --userspace
          Print userspace messages.


   -x, --decode
          Decode  facility  and level (priority) numbers to human-readable
          prefixes.

but rather to a recent User eXperience epiphany I had using dmesg.

Most of the time using dmesg, my concerns are …