Category: bash

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Stupid bash trick of the day

function _globdo { local arg="$1" local dir=$(dirname $arg) local base=$(basename $arg) shift find $dir -name $base -exec "$@" {} \; set +f } alias globdo='set -f; _globdo' The function/alias combo is get around automatic...

bashGeneralProgramming

“recd” on sourceforge

Brian took my cd bash function hack, made a whole bunch of improvements, and created a Sourceforge project for it: recd Sourceforge project...

bashProductivityProgramming

My latest bash toy: a “cd” replacement

I just made this little cd function that is a drop-in replacement for the builtin bash cd command. The idea was to make it really easy and productive to navigate around to commonly used directories in bash without forcing someone...

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UNIX Power Tools

Here's an online copy of the classic book.

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Using braces in bash

Another great bash tip from Deadman.org | Advancing in the Bash shell: Everyone has done one of the following to make a quick backup of a file: $ cp filename filename-old $ cp filename-old filename These seem fairly...

bashC++Programming

Nice little bash function for determining the meaning of error codes

Here's a cool idea from Deadman.org | Advancing in the Bash shell: (more…)...

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Restarting fetchmail automatically

I use fetchmail (in daemon mode) to pull down mail from a POP server to my local box, where I then serve it up with the Courier IMAP server. Problem I had was when my box rebooted, fetchmail could not automatically restart...