http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2003/papers/bash_tips/ http://www.gbdirect.co.uk/ Power Shell Usage Bash Tips & Tricks Simon Myers simon.myers@gbdirect.co.uk UKUUG Linux 2003 Conference • August 2003 http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2003/ This view lists all the slides from the talk in a continuous format. There is a PDF version available, suitable for printing on A4 paper. The slides are also designed to be viewed as a [...]
Archive of posts tagged Operating system
Script to Watch for Ubuntu 9.10 Launch – can be used in other scenarios.
10 February 2010, 8:19 pm
I know ubuntu is out already but this is something that you can use to monitor a webpage. This script will run check a for the Ubuntu 9.10 launch once every 5 mins and let you know when it\’s available: while [ 1 ]; do if [ -z \"`curl -I \"http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/9.10/release/\"|grep \"404\"`\" ]; then kdialog [...]
Filed under Linux.
Tagged Distributions, Link, Linux, Operating system, ubuntu, watch
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Splitting strings with IFS
4 February 2010, 8:58 pm
Today I want to discuss splitting strings into tokens or “words”. I previously discussed how to do this with the IFS variable and promised a more in depth discussion. Today, I will make the case on WHY to use IFS to split strings as opposed to using a subshell combined with awk or cut. I [...]
Filed under bash, Linux.
Tagged /dev/null, awk, Operating system, Order of magnitude, programming, shell, Unix, User
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Hi, I am Amit Agarwal. I am the sole author of this blog and have worked on Linux for more than 10 Years now. My favourite is Fedora and am using Fedora at home and office.
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