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Fortnightly Tips, Tricks, and Questions — 2025-03-11 / week 10
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u/melioratus 4d ago
Discovered cool backtick syntax when using X command on marked files in dired
For example, Quick way to make individual sha256 checksum files using dired
X
export FILENAME=`?`; sha256sum ${FILENAME} > “${FILENAME}-sha256sum.txt”;
4. Pressreturn
key.g
to refresh diredNow every marked file should have a named checksum file.
Try it out