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

How to cohost GitHub and GitLab with Ansible

Protect your access to important projects by mirroring Git repositories with Ansible.

Why the operating system matters even more in 2017

Cheat sheet for common Linux commands

Download our new Linux commands cheat sheet for executing common tasks.

A guide to intermediate awk scripting

Learn how to structure commands into executable scripts.

Fields, records, and variables in awk

In the second article in this intro to awk series, learn about fields, records, and some powerful awk variables.

Awk one-liners and scripts to help you sort text files

Awk is a powerful tool for doing tasks that might otherwise be left to other common utilities, including sort.

Getting started with awk, a powerful text-parsing tool

Let's jump in and start using it.

Authored Comments

sethkenlon

3 Dec 2020

Why I love Emacs

The word "tramp" here in New Zealand means "to hike" -- that is, take a long walk for leisure purposes through a natural setting. One might "go for a tramp" or "go tramping" over a weekend. The term within Emacs seems quite appropriate, at least regionally!

sethkenlon

3 Dec 2020

Why I love Emacs

Great point. I feel like when one discovers dired-mode, it can be a game changer. When I found out dired-mode and shell, I basically stopped closing Emacs....ever.