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(Bash) Words with many doubled letters - zingo

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 19:28:07 GMT

(Perl) Perl Reverse - debiasi

Sun, 25 May 2008 20:20:24 GMT

(Perl) get google page rank - fris

Fri, 22 Feb 2008 06:52:53 GMT

(Bash) Perl Search and Replace One-liner with xargs -0 - ches

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 14:02:45 GMT

\Q...\E perl quoting means no ugly escaping in the regex. find's -print0 with xargs -0 is the secret to handling files with spaces in their names.

(Perl) Generate XHTML on the command line with XML::API::XHTML - noah

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 02:21:23 GMT

Build a simple XHTML document, format it with Tidy and print the result to "temp.html."

(Perl) Read file from STDIN and print random line. - jkramer

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 03:36:56 GMT

(Perl) Count directory entries in given directories - amosshapira

Sun, 13 Jan 2008 18:04:31 GMT

In response to a very simplistic solution suggestion using Shell, here is a basic version of what I use. The advantage of the solution below is that it is supposed to be much faster on directories with many files (I regularly use its full-blown version on directories with tens and hundreds of thousands of files).

(Perl) Crazy Perl Code - darkphotn

Sun, 13 Jan 2008 15:10:03 GMT

Yes, this is valid code. Designed by myself, unless otherwise noted.

(Perl) battery - pham

Sun, 13 Jan 2008 12:03:00 GMT

battery is a Perl script that concisely displays your battery status.

(Bash) Batch rename files in directory - iblis

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:28:53 GMT

test with echo instead of mv example removes spaces after dots, replaces spaces with _, removes ' , and -, and finally lowercases filenames

(Perl) Perl Hello World - realgeeky

Mon, 31 Dec 2007 15:04:11 GMT

Just a test

(Bash) Scrape Google from the command line - noah

Sun, 09 Dec 2007 21:16:58 GMT

This code is POC only -- actually using it would violate Google's TOS, which forbids scraping. It is published here for educational value only. Hypothetically, the following command should return a list of the top 500 or so hits in Google for mysite.com. The results will be prepended with digits, followed by a dot and some whitespace (Lynx adds these).

(Perl) One liner perl extract content with regular expression - 0xced

Tue, 04 Dec 2007 06:33:22 GMT

Don't use the -l switch if you don't want a new line.

(Perl) Backup a flickr photoset - mandric

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 12:20:39 GMT

(Bash) check linked pages for Tidy validation errors, on the command line - noah

Tue, 13 Nov 2007 23:47:28 GMT

Given a list of HTML links (most likely a saved Google results page) check each linked page and report if Tidy complains that its doctype declaration is missing. Besides DOCTYPE, other strings to search for include "discarding", "lacks value", "Error:"

(Bash) Validate a list of Web pages with Tidy, on the command line - noah

Tue, 13 Nov 2007 22:54:37 GMT

(Bash) Tail requests for HTML files - noah

Mon, 05 Nov 2007 12:40:54 GMT

(Bash) Download linked JPEGs from a Web page, on the command line - noah

Fri, 02 Nov 2007 22:57:45 GMT

The following command will download all the files with a JPG extension that are linked from http://flickr.com.

(Perl) Fix installing Perl modules on OS X - noah

Fri, 26 Oct 2007 13:15:37 GMT

On Mac OS X, typing this command into CPAN will fix the make error when installing a Perl module. Found on the CPAN forums. Here is the error I was getting: -- NOT OK Running make test Can't run test witout successful make Running make install make had returned bad status, install seems impossible

(Perl) How to start CPAN on Windows/ActivePerl - noah

Mon, 17 Sep 2007 10:23:37 GMT

ActivePerl has a great package manager utility -- just type "ppm" at the prompt. The problem is that ActivePerl's PPM points to ActivePerl's package repository, which doesn't contain every module listed on CPAN. The solution is to invoke the cpan utility under windows! Here's how.