https://magazine.thetextsmith.com/the-nugget/Recent content in The Textsmith's Nugget on The Textsmith MagazineHugoen-gbSat, 01 Aug 2026 14:20:00 +0200https://magazine.thetextsmith.com/the-nugget/five-pipelines-every-textsmith-should-know/Sat, 01 Aug 2026 14:20:00 +0200https://magazine.thetextsmith.com/the-nugget/five-pipelines-every-textsmith-should-know/A good textsmith doesn’t look for one command that does everything. He looks for small utilities that each do one thing well. This is the lesson that we draw from this nugget.https://magazine.thetextsmith.com/the-nugget/putting-your-dotfiles-under-version-control-in-15-minutes/Sat, 01 Aug 2026 11:15:03 +0200https://magazine.thetextsmith.com/the-nugget/putting-your-dotfiles-under-version-control-in-15-minutes/This interesting nugget is on version controlling your application configuration fileshttps://magazine.thetextsmith.com/the-nugget/five-commands-to-inspect-csv-files/Sat, 01 Aug 2026 06:26:52 +0200https://magazine.thetextsmith.com/the-nugget/five-commands-to-inspect-csv-files/These commands work beautifully for simple CSV files, but they are not full CSV parsers. Quoted fields containing commas, embedded newlines, escaped quotes, and similar cases are where awk needs care—or where a dedicated CSV parser becomes the right tool.