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Transfer.sh is a free service by Dutchcoders that allows you to easily share files from the command line. Here's an example of how you can use it:

transfer my-favorite-file.txt

The given file will be uploaded to the transfer.sh-servers and the command will respond with a short url linking to that file. Pretty neat!

The only thing you need to do is set up a bash function called "transfer" (you can name it anything you want really).

Don't trust the transfer.sh with your supersecret files? Then you can set up your own server to transfer the files to.

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In this post, the Netflix Performance Engineering team will show you the first 60 seconds of an optimized performance investigation at the command line, using standard Linux tools you should have available.

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Fluency on the command line is a skill often neglected or considered arcane, but it improves your flexibility and productivity as an engineer in both obvious and subtle ways. This is a selection of notes and tips on using the command-line that we've found useful when working on Linux. Some tips are elementary, and some are fairly specific, sophisticated, or obscure. This page is not long, but if you can use and recall all the items here, you know a lot.

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In this excellent post Matthias explains why you can't put all your trust in cat when inspecting a file:

https://ma.ttias.be/terminal-escape-sequences-the-new-xss-for-linux-sysadmins/

Let's all agree to never trust anything that has been posted on the internet without very thorough inspection. And let's especially agree to never run an arbitrary command or script found on the internet, without really close inspection.

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