Category Archives: Linux

You got to love Linux. Not only that it is free, but it is also very strong, stable, and widely used.

Find with xargs

Search all files under current directory, look for xml node ‘‘, copy and print that node. Send the output to a file. find . |xargs -n1 xmlstarlet sel -t -c “//processorInfo[@ruleType=’store’]” 2>/dev/null > /cygdrive/b/allstore.txt

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XMLStartlet – Command line xml queries

xmlstarlet sel -t -c “//YOUR_NODE_ELEMENT_TAG_NAME[@ATTRIBUTE_NAME=’ATTRIBUTE_VALUE’]” YOUR_XML_FILE.xml

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Bash Scripting templates

1234567891011121314151617181920212223242526272829303132333435363738394041424344454647484950515253545556575859# ========================== # Bash tips # ========================== # Run bash by $ /bin/bash scriptname.sh $ /bin/bash scriptname.sh +x  # debug mode # Or put the next line on the 1st line of your file. #!/bin/bash -x ## Double round braket … Continue reading

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Enabling SSH (https) for Apache 2 in Ubuntu/Mint/Possibly other Debian distro

123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536373839404142434445464748495051# Intall apache $ sudo apt-get install apache2   # Enable SSL module $ sudo a2enmod ssl # Restart Apache $ sudo service apache2 restart # Create a directory to store the SSLCertificateFile and SSLCertificateKeyFile $ mkdir  /etc/apache2/ssl # Generate … Continue reading

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Directory sharing between Linux and Windows

1. Sharing/serving a Linux directory to Windows $ sudo apt-get install samba $ sudo smbpasswd -a USERNAME $ mkdir /home/USERNAME/sharedfolder $ sudo vi /etc/samba/smb.conf [sharedfolder] path = /home/USERNAME/sharedfolder available = yes valid users = USERNAME read only = no browsable … Continue reading

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Getting the current filename using bash

123456789101112131415$ cat ./testfilename.sh #!/bin/bash fullfile=`basename $0` filename=$(basename "$fullfile") echo "filename:"$filename extension="${filename##*.}" echo "extension:"$extension justfilename="${filename%.*}" echo "justfilename:"$justfilename $ ./testfilename.sh filename:testfilename.sh extension:sh justfilename:testfilename

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Customize your Vim editor using .vimrc

Quick notes: – imap is for when you are in insert mode – map is when your are in command mode Thus when you are in the insert mode, sometime you need to exit to the command mode first using … Continue reading

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Search and replace withing a file

1234567sed -i -e"s/SEARCH_TEXT/REPPLACE_TEXT/g" FILENAME.txt # another example using bakup sed -i.bak -e"s/SEARCH_TEXT/REPPLACE_TEXT/g" FILENAME.txt # another example using variable sed -i -e"s/\/pathname/\/pathname-$date/g" "filename-"$date".xml"

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Bash Scripting Basics (Variable Assignment, If, Loop)

12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031#!/bin/bash ################################################## # Benchmark the processing time when wkhtmltopdf # converts an html file to a pdf file ################################################## if [[ $1 = "" || $2 = "" || $3 = "" ]]; then         echo "Usage: … Continue reading

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Compress and Extract Files in Linux

Extract: .tar.bz2 To extract a tar (Tape ARchiver) file, type the following in the shell prompt: 1tar xvjf yourFileName.tar.bz2 Which will untar it to the current directory. Depending on the file structure that being compressed, it might create sub-directories. Parameters: … Continue reading

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