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Solaris Notes

Posted on December 7, 2014 by ronaldpringadi

Extracting a solaris package without installing it. #http://serverfault.com/questions/287469/extract-files-out-of-solaris-pkg-file-without-installing pkgtrans filename.pkg /home/user/temporary_package_prefix

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Find with xargs

Posted on October 20, 2014 by ronaldpringadi

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

Posted on October 20, 2014 by ronaldpringadi

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

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Bash Scripting templates

Posted on October 6, 2014 by ronaldpringadi

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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Python Sample Script

Posted on September 11, 2014 by ronaldpringadi

You inherit a folder full of bash scripts. They source each other, they call each other through pipelines, and after a while nobody remembers who depends on whom. You want a picture — “if I touch deploy.sh, what else might … Continue reading →

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

Posted on September 4, 2014 by ronaldpringadi

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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PHP and CURL

Posted on May 20, 2014 by ronaldpringadi

1234567891011121314151617181920212223242526function browse($url, $postData = null) {     $fields = ”;     if(is_array($postData) && sizeof($postData) >= 1){         $fields = http_build_query($postData);     }     $ch = curl_init();     curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);     … Continue reading →

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Directory sharing between Linux and Windows

Posted on May 8, 2014 by ronaldpringadi

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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Choosing the default network card (NIC) that should access the Internet

Posted on May 8, 2014 by ronaldpringadi

In the presense of multiple network adapters, it is sometimes necessary to manually specify which one is the default used for internet routing, for example. To accomplish this, you have to manually add a “metric” to each interface. Windows will … Continue reading →

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Getting the current filename using bash

Posted on May 3, 2014 by ronaldpringadi

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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