July 13th 2007
IBM always has good articles on basically everything. This one is like a best practices/tips and tricks for writing solid bash scripts for automation. Yay IBM.
System Administration Toolkit: Build intelligent, unattended scripts
July 13th 2007
This looks like a pretty slick way to download videos from YouTube. I never liked any of the plugins for Firefox, and I’m a Linux/UNIX guy anyway. I also started using kuake so I always have a terminal handy for exactly these kinds of things. I’m excited. I’m weird like that.
youtube-dl: Download videos from YouTube.com
July 13th 2007
Finally a nice quick python ‘tutorial’. And by finally I mean something that just showed up in Google Reader.
Learn Python in 10 minutes | Poromenos’ Stuff
July 10th 2007
The best command ever. Can be found all over the intraweb
alias sex='updatedb; locate; talk; date; cd; strip; look; touch; finger; unzip; uptime; gawk; head; apt-get install condom; mount; fsck; gasp; more; yes; yes; yes; more; umount; apt-get remove –purge condom; make clean; sleep'
July 10th 2007
So today I had to use find + xargs + grep to search for some things in cygwin, since Windows search is like a hunting dog with no sense of smell. Being Windows, there are spaces in file paths left, right, and center. xargs and grep don’t play overly nice with this.
Originally I had:
find . -name *.js | xargs grep Saving
Which didn’t work. grep was looking for weird things which did not exist. Then I found this link with Google,
find + xargs: how do I handle space in the path – comp.unix.shell | Google Groups
which provided a solution:
find . -name *.js -print0 | xargs -0 grep Saving
A friend pointed out that if there are any JavaScript files in the current directory, .js will get expanded by bash and not work too well. Final solution:
find . -name "</strong>.js" -print0 | xargs -0 grep --color=always Saving
July 9th 2007
Yay! Now I am happy. Must go home to compile…
Linux 2 6 22 – Linux Kernel Newbies
buffer overflow by Daniel Huckstep
