Recently I got a script or series of scripts that were written for PHP 5.6x and hence used mysql_connect which as you know by now does not work with PHP 7.0. Since there were number of scripts, I …

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How many times you have felt that there was some simple way to convert bash ansi escape sequences ( colors as well in terminal ) to html equivalent so that you can send the same as html report in …

Here is description of the tool: […] To install dnf install ShellCheck And just run the tool on the script to get the common errors.

nall is a utility to run your scripts ( for whatever ) every defined period. Here is description: […] For installation : sudo yum install nall Once done, you can start from terminal as “nall” …

I was doing something today and found that I require to fork a new process in perl. Now I had never done this earlier, so I did not know how to do this. First some background : I was doing some …

cdargs is a <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/bash" title="Bash" rel="homepage" href="http://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/bash/bashtop.html">bash shell cd with …

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For the below commands either you can set the two variables in bold and then run the scripts or change the following in the commands and run the scripts. If you have html2text installed then you can …

Easier Reinstalls I typically reinstall my computer operating system every six months. The reasons for this are that it cleans out the system and reinstalls require me to be in front of the computer …

Searching some pattern in multiple files is something that is required very often. There are multiple ways to do it, like <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/grep" title="Grep" …

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