Snipplr - wolfie

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

Tue, 06 May 2008 06:26:26 GMT

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

Tue, 06 May 2008 06:22:05 GMT

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

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 11:56:51 GMT

(Bash) Mount a windows share in linux

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 07:46:25 GMT

(Perl) Perl 1-liner to generate an MD5

Tue, 11 Sep 2007 08:15:20 GMT

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

Tue, 28 Aug 2007 05:18:49 GMT

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

Fri, 13 Jul 2007 06:36:40 GMT

(Bash) Redefining colours in vi

Wed, 11 Apr 2007 04:48:37 GMT

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

Wed, 11 Apr 2007 04:45:38 GMT

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

Tue, 20 Feb 2007 04:51:19 GMT

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

Tue, 13 Feb 2007 02:15:24 GMT

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

Mon, 22 Jan 2007 06:29:55 GMT

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

Fri, 17 Nov 2006 03:31:09 GMT

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

Mon, 13 Nov 2006 02:26:34 GMT

Courtesy of Michael Mathews

(Perl) Convert timestamp to Unixtime

Fri, 10 Nov 2006 02:59:11 GMT