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OS/X daemon script template

November 9th, 2009 · No Comments · Linux, OS X

This is a daemon script written for OS/X in bash. It can be run either as a daemon or a launchd service.

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bash shell script to manage pid file creation/deletion

October 30th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Linux, OS X

You want your script to execute without overlapping another execution.

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bash shell script to use getopts with gnu style long positional parameters

October 29th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Linux, OS X

Problem: You want to support –really-long-option-names in your bash script and getopts won’t do it. More problems: You don’t want to use getopt because you want cross platform support or your platform isn’t supported. More problems than that: I can’t help with existential issues. Solution: Rewrite the long options into short options and then use [...]

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