Seth Kenlon

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New Zealand (South Island)

Seth Kenlon is a UNIX geek, free culture advocate, independent multimedia artist, and D&D nerd. He has worked in the film and computing industry, often at the same time. He is one of the maintainers of the Slackware-based multimedia production project Slackermedia.

Open Source Super Star Moderator's Choice Award 2011 Best Interview Award 2017 Author 100+ Contributions Club Columnist Contributor Club

Authored Content

Monitor your Linux system in your terminal with procps-ng

How to find the process ID (PID) of a program. The most common Linux tools for this are provided by the procps-ng package, including the ps and pstree, pidof, and pgrep…

Parsing command options in Lua

My favorite way to solve the problem of parsing in Lua is alt-getopt.

Remove files and folders in the Linux terminal

Learn to safely remove files and folders in the Linux terminal.

Copy files in the Linux terminal

Use the cp command to copy files in the Linux terminal.

Rename a file in the Linux terminal

To rename a file in the terminal, move the file with mv from itself to itself with a new name. Here's an example.

Move files in the Linux terminal

Use the mv command to move a file from one location to another.

Authored Comments

sethkenlon

29 Sep 2021

How I keep my file folders tidy with Ansible

Nice! Thanks for pointing me to Organize. I'll check it out, and probably refer a few people to it. I know a *lot* of folks with very messy desktops who might really appreciate this!

sethkenlon

14 Sep 2021

Replace smart quotes with the Linux sed command

This is a great deconstruction of the article. For more information on how to use sed, check out these articles, as well:

https://opensource.com/article/20/12/sed

https://opensource.com/article/21/3/sed-cheat-sheet