[Tue Nov 27 11:23:18 CST 2018]

A tip on something I just needed a few minutes ago. I had to use the vim editor temporarily ignoring the default configuration set in the rc file just for this session. To accomplish this, run the command with the following options:

$ vim -u NONE -U NONE -N -i NONE

This is documented in the FAQ. {link to this entry}

[Mon Nov 26 11:45:10 CST 2018]

Here is something I didn't have to do in a log time, but I needed it today. However, since it belongs in the old UNIX toolbox, plenty of people wouldn't even know it exists. When you need to log out of a remote system and move on but, at the same time, do not want to end a particular process (e.g., a download operation of some sort), use the nohup command:

$ nohup myscript.sh

By default, the information that would usually go to stdout and stderr will be saved in a nohup.out file in the same directory where you ran the command from. If you prefer to use something else, though, the screen command works fine for this purpose too. {link to this entry}