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(Other) Remove comment and empty lines from config files - amosshapira

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 23:31:18 UTC

The following snippet will remove lines beginning with '#' (ignoring white space before the '#') and empty line. This helps viewing and comparing configuration files full of comments.

(Perl) Convert error number to error message - amosshapira

Sun, 13 Jan 2008 19:14:00 UTC

Sometimes you can find error numbers in log files from various programs or even the kernel. This one-liner can be used to convert the error number into a meaningful message. "X" is the error number.

(Perl) Count directory entries in given directories - amosshapira

Sun, 13 Jan 2008 18:04:31 UTC

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).