diff2html is a free and open source utility that uses the output of diff(1) to graphically compare two files in html. A python version of the same thing exists here. This version of diff2html was created as an exercise in writing bash string handling and array processing routines. The python version is actually faster, but [...]
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sed script to trim leading and trailing spaces
February 25th, 2009 · No Comments · Linux, OS X
i couldn’t find this anywhere, so just to make it generally public, this is my trim function: sed ‘s/^[[:space:]]*\(.*\)[[:space:]]*$/\1/’ For who’s looking, this command says: from beginning of line ^ take any amount of whitespace [[:space:]] then create a group containing anything \(.*\) up to whitespace at the end of the line [[:space:]]*$ replace this [...]
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Getting Started with PostgreSQL
May 15th, 2008 · No Comments · Linux
Here is the guide that I wish were available when I started with PostgreSQL a few years ago. Getting PostgreSQL Fedora has a great group install utility for just this occasion. yum -y groupinstall “PostgreSQL Database” yum -y install postgresql-contrib service postgresql initdb service postgresql start Quotes and capitalization matter… Then we proceed to set [...]
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