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(Ruby) Parse an XML document with REXML and print some of the text nodes

Mon, 24 Mar 2008 16:50:22 GMT

Parses the XML file MY_FILE.xml, and prints the text from each record node's upload_list node, unless the upload_list node is empty.

(Bash) Exclude some directories from grep

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 12:44:48 GMT

The following command will grep for a string in HTML files, but will skip the directories dirFoo and dirBar. (Thanks Jeff)

(Bash) Tail requests for HTML files

Mon, 05 Nov 2007 12:40:54 GMT

(Perl) capitalize words

Tue, 03 Jul 2007 22:53:02 GMT

(Perl) id3.pl

Tue, 03 Jul 2007 22:40:18 GMT

This script takes a list of directories as its argument. For mp3s that don't have any id3 information, guess the name of the artist and track based on the filename and use the MP3-Info module to insert that guess into the file as id3v1 tags.

(Perl) Truncate filenames but keep file extensions intact

Tue, 03 Jul 2007 22:33:28 GMT

(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) Remove duplicate lines from a text file

Tue, 03 Jul 2007 22:06:34 GMT

Sometimes I get a big list of things, and some of the things occur multiple times in the same list. A good example is a newline-delimited list of files: the same file path might be listed 4 or 5 times. So this script removes those kinds of duplicate lines. Found at Google Answers.

(Perl) insert ALT attribute into IMG tags that don't already have ALT attributes

Tue, 03 Jul 2007 21:43:16 GMT

At one point I wanted to give every image on my site an ALT tag. I did, with some help from beginners@perl.org.

(Perl) Examine CSS selectors in JSP files and report on whether they match some patterns

Tue, 03 Jul 2007 21:27:59 GMT

Processe a directory of JSP source files, looks for regex matches, and reports on the number and location of matches. For detecting deprecated attributes in XHTML. Uses Mail::Outlook to send an email. Requires you to click "ok" each time a notification is sent, but gets around firewalls.