https://blog.thetextsmith.com/categories/weekly-nugget/ Recent content in Weekly Nugget on Under the Anvil Hugo en-us Sat, 15 Aug 2026 06:26:52 +0200 https://blog.thetextsmith.com/weekly-nugget/five-commands-to-inspect-csv-files/ Sat, 15 Aug 2026 06:26:52 +0200 https://blog.thetextsmith.com/weekly-nugget/five-commands-to-inspect-csv-files/ These commands work beautifully for simple CSV files, but they are not full CSV parsers. Quoted fields containing commas, embedded newlines, escaped quotes, and similar cases are where awk needs care—or where a dedicated CSV parser becomes the right tool. https://blog.thetextsmith.com/weekly-nugget/ten-bash-parameter-expansions-you-ll-actually-use/ Sat, 08 Aug 2026 06:01:12 +0200 https://blog.thetextsmith.com/weekly-nugget/ten-bash-parameter-expansions-you-ll-actually-use/ Bash is not just about running commands—it is also a surprisingly capable text-processing language. Many people reach for sed, awk, or tr without realizing that Bash itself can perform many everyday string manipulations instantly, without launching another process. Find out in this week’s nugget. https://blog.thetextsmith.com/weekly-nugget/five-shell-one-liners-that-saved-me-time-every-week/ Sat, 01 Aug 2026 07:48:28 +0200 https://blog.thetextsmith.com/weekly-nugget/five-shell-one-liners-that-saved-me-time-every-week/ To cap our week on shell scripting, I am going to share with you my five shell one-liners that saved me time. https://blog.thetextsmith.com/weekly-nugget/find-and-replace-across-your-entire-project/ Sat, 25 Jul 2026 02:28:50 +0200 https://blog.thetextsmith.com/weekly-nugget/find-and-replace-across-your-entire-project/ Before we dive back into longer essays next week, here is a practical Textsmith Nugget that demonstrates one of the most satisfying moments in text-processing: changing hundreds of files with a single command. https://blog.thetextsmith.com/weekly-nugget/five-pipelines-every-textsmith-should-know/ Sat, 18 Jul 2026 14:20:00 +0200 https://blog.thetextsmith.com/weekly-nugget/five-pipelines-every-textsmith-should-know/ A good textsmith doesn’t look for one command that does everything. He looks for small utilities that each do one thing well. This is the lesson that we draw from this week’s textsmith nugget. https://blog.thetextsmith.com/weekly-nugget/putting-your-dotfiles-under-version-control-in-15-minutes/ Sat, 11 Jul 2026 11:15:03 +0200 https://blog.thetextsmith.com/weekly-nugget/putting-your-dotfiles-under-version-control-in-15-minutes/ This week’s nugget is on version controlling your application configuration files https://blog.thetextsmith.com/weekly-nugget/don-t-just-copy-it-study-it-first/ Sat, 04 Jul 2026 03:48:03 +0200 https://blog.thetextsmith.com/weekly-nugget/don-t-just-copy-it-study-it-first/ A textsmith is not someone who merely knows commands, but someone who seeks to understand them.