Tag: bash

Preventing syntax errors with old shell scripts

I was trying to install Unreal Tournament GOTY on one of my Linux machines. I downloaded and ran the script ut-install-436-GOTY.run but I got this error: Read More »
By halfgaar, 3 weeks ago, on February 14, 2010, at 17:02 | 4 comments

Replacing the full contents of a Subversion working (sub)dir

The annoyances that I suffered earlier today during the upgrade of a WordPress plugin made me turn to my favorite text-editor to create a simple script, svn-replace-dir: Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 2 months ago, on January 14, 2010, at 00:01 | No comments

My custom Linux environment

On every machine that I install, I need a custom environment. At the very basic, I need screen and bash customizations. I will attempt to keep this blog post up-to-date with my most recent config. Read More »
By halfgaar, 2 months ago, on January 04, 2010, at 11:01 | No comments

Bash script for sending SMS using Mollie

I signed up for a Mollie account so that I can send SMS's from my machines. To do that, I needed a bash script, so I wrote one: Read More »
By halfgaar, 3 months ago, on December 12, 2009, at 14:12 | No comments

Bash quoting

I'm always confused by bash's quoting. I hope to put all my quote wisdom in this post and invoke other's quote wisdom in the comments. I'll give some examples of what I mean. Read More »
By halfgaar, 5 months ago, on October 18, 2009, at 17:10 | No comments

Tracking WordPress in a Subversion vendor branch

Two months prior to writing a script to upgrade MediaWiki installations using Subversion vendor branches, I wrote something similar for WordPress. It's a little bit more limited and should really incorporate some of the improvements made for the MediaWiki version, but it worked fine so far: Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 6 months ago, on September 20, 2009, at 13:09 | 4 comments

Tracking MediaWiki in a Subversion vendor branch

Vendor branches are the proper™ way of merging upstream changes in your web application installations. In Subversion, managing vendor branches isn't so easy as it is in Git. Still, vendor branches make it much easier to track upstream. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 8 months ago, on July 20, 2009, at 14:07 | 1 comment

My quest for the ultimate Bash prompt

On my new laptop (a Lenovo T61) I was still using the default Gentoo prompt in Bash. This was kind of a shame since my last Gentoo installation (on what is now my sister's Ubuntu machine) had a beautifully customized prompt. It was time to dig up the old escape codes. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 1 year ago, on December 05, 2008, at 00:12 | 2 comments

Creating a bash fork bomb

Logged into a Unix machine? Does "ulimit -a" say that the max number of user processes is unlimited? Then type the following to crash the machine (provided it uses bash, or another shell with compatible syntax): Read More »
By halfgaar, 2 years ago, on July 10, 2008, at 15:07 | 1 comment

Microsoft batch file meets bash shellscript

Luca City, who already shared a nice readline keyboard shortcut with me, wrote me again on May 14 to share another unrelated, but very interesting trick: Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 3 years ago, on June 11, 2007, at 20:06 | No comments