Scripting

Today I revisited some scripts I last touched on December 5, 2011 for very very carefully archiving research data with checksums, an audit trail, and other very very careful things like that.

I think I once knew this, but forgot about it. Still, the fact remains:

I Did Not Know about multitail.

I’ve been enjoying how Automator in Mac OS X 10.6 lets you easily create services for simple little annoying things. I expect it’ll take about three times longer to write about what I just did than it did to actually do it.