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my tech ramblings, some tips and tricks, but mostly just a place for me to b1tch

Thursday, June 24, 2010

... is called activity monitor. fyi.

Posted by rouble at 5:53 PM

replace ^M with newline in vim

Sometimes, well, rarely, I need to edit a windows file in linux. And when this happens I usually need to replace the DOS newline with a unix...
vi/vim delete everything below current line

Delete the current line and everything below: dG
bash (shell) code to verify email address

I used the regex from here , and modified it to accept lower case letters. if [[ "$email" =~ "^[A-Za-z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Za-z0-9...
ssh ignore known hosts file

/usr/bin/ssh user@host -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null
how to pay nanny taxes in north carolina

Demystifying Nanny taxes in the State of North Carolina Getting Started Get a rough idea of how much tax you should withhold from your...
perl chomp backticks

When you use backticks in perl to get output from the system, you may end up with trailing newlines. I usually get rid of them with chomp . ...
bash printf to variable

If you want to use bash's printf formatting and store the value into a variable, you can use bash's print's -v flag as follows: ...
vi/vim delete everything above current line

Delete the current line and everything above: dgg
bash remove trailing slash

STRING=${STRING%/} Deletes shortest match of a substring (in this case a forward slash) from back of STRING.
xbmc timeout on smb

Sometimes XBMC will take a little longer to list all your folders on a SMB share. It may throw an error such as: "Operation Time out...

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