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Finding Replacing Filenames & text inside files using perl

A few “Bash Tricks” for the peeps
First up:
Find & replace filenames
This finds file that match Somethinghtml.html and renames to Something.html (HTTP Track users will recognize these two examples as fixes to common naming problems when scraping a site.) Note you can change the mask of files searched by changing the find mask at the [...]

Coding, Linux / Unix / CLI

Ubuntu Apache Tuning

So I recently needed to do a little quick performance tuning at work on one of our ubuntu server installs.  I’ve been using some of the wisdom found here to refresh myself on the basics, and I wrote a quick little one line awk script to give me the total amount of memory being used [...]

Linux / Unix / CLI, TechJunk, The Standard Biz

Tricks of the CLI Trade

Show just directories with pretty ls colors!
ls -ld */
Find in files cheap and dirty unix style!
find . -type f| xargs grep ’some_string’
[Listening to: Wouldn't Believe It - The Get Up Kids - Guilt Show (3:47)]

Linux / Unix / CLI

Subversion helper Bash Script

Sometimes repository names get long, and when you’re using subversion typing them all out can be a pain. I wrote this quick bash helper script to make using subversion with one repository easier and quicker to use.

#!/bin/bash

MYREPOSITORY=”http://myrepository.net/svn”

#Script requires USERNAME, REPOSITORY DIRECTORY, and COMMAND
MINPARAMS=3

if [ $# -lt "$MINPARAMS" ]
then
echo ” Usage: ./msvn [...]

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