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How to Delete Multiple Versions of an App in HockeyApp

I recently needed to issue several dozen HTTP DELETE REST API calls of the form http://www.example.com/blah/n where n was a sequential version number. In this post I’ll show how to do this easily from the command line.

Processing A List Of Files In bash

When you’re working in Unix or Linux or even Mac OS X, there are often times when you need to apply the same command to a list of files. In this post I’ll show you a couple of quick ways to do this using the bash shell.

Navigating the Directory Stack in ‘bash’

If you’re like me, you spend a lot of time jumping from project to project in a Linux shell. I find that I have to switch back and forth between directories. The bash shell has commands to maintain a stack of directories. I’ve written some functions that use these utilities to make directory navigation easier. I’ve found these functions very useful, and perhaps you will too. Let’s see them in action first with some examples, and then look at the code:

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