Grep is one of the most useful tools in the *nix user’s armory. But it has it’s limitations.
Recently I wanted to pull specific lines out of a (very large) tab-delimited text datafile, based only on one particular field, and write them to a new text file. As it turns out, grep doesn’t handle tabs in [...]
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RSS feeds in Google search results
I’ve been noticing lately that some Google search results are really links to a site’s RSS feed.
As a “blogger”1 with an RSS feed of my own, you’d think I’d be keen on this idea, but no. It’s a really poor idea for all concerned.
From the point of view of someone doing a search, it is [...]