https://blog.thetextsmith.com/tags/toolbox/ Recent content in Toolbox on Under the Anvil Hugo en-us Wed, 29 Jul 2026 06:27:03 +0200 https://blog.thetextsmith.com/the-workshop/your-personal-toolbox-growing-local-bin-one-script-at-a-time/ Wed, 29 Jul 2026 06:27:03 +0200 https://blog.thetextsmith.com/the-workshop/your-personal-toolbox-growing-local-bin-one-script-at-a-time/ Before long, every Linux user accumulates little command snippets. A clever find pipeline copied from a forum. A five-line shell script that renames photographs. An awk one-liner that extracts exactly the report you need. The question is not whether you will collect these solutions. The question is whether you will lose them. https://blog.thetextsmith.com/the-workshop/from-one-liners-to-utilities-when-should-a-shell-command-become-a-script/ Mon, 27 Jul 2026 17:27:20 +0200 https://blog.thetextsmith.com/the-workshop/from-one-liners-to-utilities-when-should-a-shell-command-become-a-script/ In a previous post, I discussed handling personal frustration through building my own utility, and learning programming in the process. The question now is: at what point should a group of commands, ofen represented as one-liners, be turned into a script?