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(Bash) Create a batch file wrapper for a script in linux - wolfie

Tue, 06 May 2008 06:26:26 UTC

Useful if you need to run the same command for lots and lots of different parameters

(Bash) Determine which number out of a list is being processed at the moment - wolfie

Tue, 06 May 2008 06:22:05 UTC

Useful if you have a shell script running lots of the same command and want to know how many of them have been done

(SQL) Update from select - wolfie

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 11:56:51 UTC

(Bash) Mount a windows share in linux - wolfie

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 07:46:25 UTC

(Perl) Perl 1-liner to generate an MD5 - wolfie

Tue, 11 Sep 2007 08:15:20 UTC

This shows how to use a module that normally needs a 'qw' attachment to the use statement (hint: its the = sign). You can add others by using comma separated values.

(Bash) How to remove files that are over 1 day old - wolfie

Tue, 28 Aug 2007 05:18:49 UTC

A one-liner to remove any temporary files modified over one day ago. Removes files from /tmp/ Run without the '-exec rm {} \;' part to check that it is matching the right set of files - this can be dangerous if run by root! If you want to remove files modified today, change +1 to -1 This can be useful to add into crontab though

(Perl) How to replace a string in a file quickly from the command line - wolfie

Fri, 13 Jul 2007 06:36:40 UTC

(Bash) Redefining colours in vi - wolfie

Wed, 11 Apr 2007 04:48:37 UTC

Paste the contents of this into the file ~/.vimrc and you'll be able to redefine colours as you see fit. This also sets the background to be a default colourscheme of 'dark', with a tabstop of 4. Note that " is used for comments.

(Bash) How to add a '.t' filetype to vi's syntax highlighting - wolfie

Wed, 11 Apr 2007 04:45:38 UTC

This allows you to use perl syntax highlighting in vi for test scripts that use the ".t" file extension

(Bash) Using chkconfig to make software start at reboot - wolfie

Tue, 20 Feb 2007 04:51:19 UTC

This allows you to make any software begin at system startup time. Remember that runlevel 3 is basic console and runlevel 5 is GUI (XWindows/Gnome/KDE etc).

(Perl) How to make sure the filename you want is output to a browser - wolfie

Tue, 13 Feb 2007 02:15:24 UTC

Use this to display a file properly if you are reading it from another location and wish to direct it to the user's browser

(Bash) How to see what processes are listening on which ports - wolfie

Mon, 22 Jan 2007 06:29:55 UTC

(SQL) How to determine a timeout using unix time in mysql - wolfie

Fri, 17 Nov 2006 03:31:09 UTC

This will return the number of seconds between now and when the time field was inserted.

(Perl) How to return an error message or a value - wolfie

Mon, 13 Nov 2006 02:26:34 UTC

Courtesy of Michael Mathews

(Perl) Convert timestamp to Unixtime - wolfie

Fri, 10 Nov 2006 02:59:11 UTC