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DocBook Video Tutorial 2 - DocBook to PDF with Xcode and XMLLINT

By VandadNP : 29 April 2011 - 03:41 AM
In this tutorial you will learn: Downloading DocBook DocumentationWriting DocBook in XcodeValidating DocBook XMLsGenerating PDF from DocBook XMLs To download MacPorts, go to: http://macports.org/ To...
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bash Shell Options

By adfm : 18 May 2010 - 12:50 PM
Is bash not working the way you want it to? Change the way it behaves with this handy list of options from Arnold Robbins' bash Pocket Reference. Bash provides a number of shell options, settings...
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Built-in bash Shell Variables

By adfm : 14 May 2010 - 04:05 PM
bash has long been the go-to shell for quick one-off scripts. If you're in the midst of writing such a script and could use a handy reference of the built-in shell variables, than this excerpt from ...
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File Descriptor redirection and duplication

Asked by ahmad.zuhd : 02 March 2010 - 11:26 PM

Answered by KBenson : Mar 17 2010 03:23 PM
Part I It may help to think of the file descriptors as variables that contain a value, and the value determines where the output goes (STDOUT, STDERR, a file, etc). When redirecting 2 (STDERR) to 1 ... full answer >
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Keep SSH Sessions Active, Or Reconnect?

By lazyweb : 04 February 2010 - 04:43 PM
Over on Slashdot user borjonx writes "Is it safer to log out of an SSH session, and re-establish it later, or just keep the connection open? Like many of you, I use OpenSSH to connect to my Slack...
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How to find the top domains currently being processed by your postfix mail queue.

By Jim-J : 01 February 2010 - 11:07 AM
If you want to get a glimpse of what's grinding away in your postfix MTA's mail queue, this simple bash one liner will give you the top 15 domains that it's working with: $ mailq | g...
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How to find the number of requests being processed in a postfix mail queue

By Jim-J : 01 February 2010 - 10:44 AM
If you have a very active postfix MTA, it can take a while for the number of requests that it is currently processing to scroll past the screen. If you just want a quick answer of how many messages i...
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How to Clean Up after a Tarball or Zipball Explodes

By mike-loukides : 29 January 2010 - 05:53 PM
Don't you hate it when someone sends you a big fat tar or zip file full of lots of files, and didn't bother to put everything in one folder? If you extract it unawares, you get dozens--maybe ...
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- jar
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set -o vi : invalid option

Asked by augustpasimio : 09 December 2009 - 06:58 AM

Answered by sboss : Dec 09 2009 08:10 AM
on linux I put the following in my .bash_profile: set -o vi on MacOSX Snow Leopard I put the following in the my .bash_profile: set -o vi and on both platforms it works for me. Also it works for me... full answer >
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Domain-Specific Languages--in bash?

By mike-loukides : 10 November 2009 - 12:38 PM
That's perhaps overstating it, but you can use bash shell functions to create things that are very similar to domain-specific languages. Here's a stripped-down extract from one of my scripts,...
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