I consider myself pretty knowledgable in Linux…but I seem to be learning new commands and techniques quite often. Today I learned about *head* which essentially gives you the first few lines of a file and prints it on the screen. You can customize this experience by adding parameters, one of the more useful ones is -n # which as you would expect returns a specific number of lines from the beginning of your file. This is going to prove particularly useful when comparing .out files that contain compilation options. On Eureka for instance, I’ve found that

Also had to make a quick animated gif today, easiest way I found was to use image magick via: