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Barmar
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  • Arlington, MA
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I've been in the computer industry since about 1979 (I had a summer programming job after graduating from high school), and I've done a little bit of everything. I've programmed in ancient languages (BASIC, PL/I, COBOL, Lisp) and more recent ones (Perl, PHP, Javascript), with a few random assemblers thrown into the mix. I've been a system programmer, system administrator, tech support engineer, and performance engineer.

I'm currently working as a programmer for Bridge Base Online, the leading online site for playing bridge. I've been learning modern web application development in the process.

P.S. My name is barmar, not barman.

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tar: Removing leading `/' from member names
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Shell script throws a not found error when run from a sh file. But if entered manually the commands work
Sep 16, 2014
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What is the added value of the -T option in GNU cp and mv?
Jun 9, 2016
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nice and ionice: which one should come first?
Sep 6, 2017
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Fastest `uniq` tool in linux
May 10, 2014
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How can UserA programmatically replace a text string within a file they own that's located in /etc?
Jun 22, 2024
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Untar a specifc folder within tar.gz
Dec 19, 2014
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Is gzip atomic?
Aug 23, 2019
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Compare two URL lists and print newly added URLs to a new file
Nov 23, 2015
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The different ways of passing the arguments to console applications
May 10, 2014

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