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Sachin Patil

Mumbai, India

Sachin works at Red Hat and is passionate about Free and Open source software. He is avid GNU Emacs user and likes to talk and write about open source, GNU/Linux, Git, and Python. He is a developer working on Red Hat Insights and previously worked on OpenStack & ManageIQ/CloudForms. He also like to explore Swift Object Storage in his spare time. He can be reached on IRC as psachin@{Freenode, OFTC, gnome}. You can find more about him at http://psachin.gitlab.io/about

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setV: A Bash function to maintain Python virtual environments

Get to know setV, a lightweight Python virtual environment manager and alternative to virtualenvwrapper.

Sachin Patil (Red Hat) 13 Jan 2020 15 votes 1 comment

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How to use Magit to manage Git projects

Emacs' Magit extension makes it easy to get started with Git version control.

Sachin Patil (Red Hat) 03 Jan 2019 93 votes 2 comments

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What is a Makefile and how does it work?

Run and compile your programs more efficiently with this handy automation tool.

Sachin Patil (Red Hat) 22 Aug 2018 257 votes 8 comments

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How to kill a process or stop a program in Linux

Here are several options for terminating a program in Linux using the command line or a graphical interface.

Sachin Patil (Red Hat) 09 May 2018 174 votes 5 comments

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How to create LaTeX documents with Emacs

This tutorial takes you through the process of creating a document in LaTeX, a powerful open source typesetting system, using GNU Emacs.

Sachin Patil (Red Hat) 09 Apr 2018 187 votes 14 comments

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Commented on 20 Jan 2020

setV: A Bash function to maintain Python virtual environments

Why setv: https://psachin.gitlab.io/why_setv.html

Commented on 29 Nov 2019

What programming language would you teach a kid first?

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