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(Bash) Get the length of a string on the command line with Ruby

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 23:08:41 GMT

The following command prints 21.

(Perl) lwp-request

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 12:28:41 GMT

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

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 02:21:23 GMT

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

(Bash) Validate XHTML with Tidy and/or OpenJade, just like the FF extension

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 02:14:45 GMT

Neither command will give any feedback unless invalid markup is found.

(Other) ClearCase commands

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 11:24:19 GMT

Here is a list of commands that work with Rational Software's ClearTool for Rational ClearCase version control system.

(Bash) Scrape Google from the command line

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).

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

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

Tue, 13 Nov 2007 22:54:37 GMT

(Bash) Tail requests for HTML files

Mon, 05 Nov 2007 12:40:54 GMT

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

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.

(Bash) Create a directory recursively

Tue, 23 Oct 2007 02:01:14 GMT

Given the legal path of a nonexistent directory, create that path and directory.

(SVN) Subversion repository URL changed, update the working copy so that it points to the new URL.

Wed, 19 Sep 2007 18:45:50 GMT

Run this command from within a directory that is a Subversion working copy. The following command changes the host name of the server from "arithromancy" to "arithromancy.local".

(Perl) Automated UI test with Selenium-RC, WWW::Selenium and Test::More

Sat, 15 Sep 2007 10:49:16 GMT

In order for this to work, the Selenium-RC server must be running. See also the tutorial at http://search.cpan.org/~mschwern/Test-Simple-0.71/lib/Test/Tutorial.pod

(Perl) command-line perl

Wed, 04 Jul 2007 20:00:52 GMT

couple of useful snippets from an article I found at Perl.com

(Perl) Grab linked files from a list of web pages

Tue, 03 Jul 2007 22:31:30 GMT

Expects as argument the name of a file containing a newline-delimited list of URLs. When invoked, launches an interactive shell that asks what type of file should be downloaded. Then downloads all the files that are linked from each of the listed Web pages.

(Perl) rename - Larry Wall's filename fixer

Mon, 21 May 2007 04:49:45 GMT

Invoke this script without any arguments to see the help text. From the Perl Cookbook, Ch. 9.9.