As a lot of other part of bash, this is black magic. Lets suppose a friendly command that spits out NUL separated fields (as find -print0, shyaml get-values-0, ...). Which - may I insist - is the recommended way to …
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bash lore: command substitution and final new lines
Posted by vaab
on 2014/05/07
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Be wary that command substitution will remove all final new lines. Command substitution are $(command ..) construct or older `command ..` one that will be substitued by the standard output of the given command. But that's incorrect: a proper definition …
bash lore: NUL character and variables
Posted by vaab
on 2014/05/03
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Bash variables are often thought as being able to store any binary content. Please bear in mind that it can't store NUL character, and only this one. Here you are: $ ascii_table() { echo -en "$(echo '\'0{0..3}{0..7}{0..7} | tr -d …
SpamAssassin, Amavis and ubuntu
Posted by vaab
on 2012/04/02
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If running spamassassin (SA) with amavis without usage of spamd on ubuntu 10.04 and you feel that sa-learn isn't working right, here are a few tips. I had mails that were false positive and I had to dig a little …
extracting a subpart of a git repository with history
Posted by vaab
on 2011/06/29
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I recently had to extract a subdirectory of an existing git repository towards its own new repository. And I wanted to keep all the commit information and history that was related to this directory. EDIT: Even if the solution I …
Forcing monospace font in HTML edit post in wordpress
Posted by vaab
on 2011/06/19
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I'm writing my blog post in ReST_ code, so naturally I want that the `HTML` edition tab of wordpress have a fixed-width font as ``monospace``.
Here's how to achieve this.