bash quicksand 1: whitespaces in variable assignment

bash is a very powerful scripting language. However, there is a learning curve that frustrates many. In a series of bash quicksand blog ent...Read more »

Trick grep not to report itself in a process search

How often have you searched for a process, using ps and grep? $ ps -ef |grep emacs peter 7107 1 1 09:10 ? 00:00:08 /usr/bin/...Read more »

dbmail 2.2.10 released

I have just upgraded my dbmail to 2.2.10. There are bugs fixed. So upgrade is highly recommended. Changes since 2.2.9: - - PostgreSQL 8.3 c...Read more »

How to check the exit status code

When a command finishes execution, it returns an exit code. The exit code is not displayed on the screen by default. To examine the exit ...Read more »

Using sed to extract lines in a text file

If you write bash scripts a lot, you are bound to run into a situation where you want to extract some lines from a file. Yesterday, I needed...Read more »

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This policy is valid from 23 March 2008 This blog is a personal blog written and edited by me. This blog accepts forms of cash advertising,...Read more »

Fitur Feed Redirect pada Blogspot

Saat saya mengutak-atik setting blog saya ini, saya menemukan fitur feed redirect. Fitur ini akan mengarahkan feed default dari blogspot ke ...Read more »

So much idea, so little time available

Pada perjalanan pulang dari Jakarta ke Bandung kemaren, banyak ide tulisan yang muncul di pikiran saya. Sayangnya saat itu saya tidak bisa l...Read more »

Ke Jakarta lagi

Sudah cukup lama saya tidak ke Jakarta. Pagi ini saya berangkat ke Jakarta, dalam rangka presentasi tender proyek. Tadi sewaktu menunggu di ...Read more »

It is about Time ... a process

Sometimes, it is easy to overlook the simple Linux commands. Take the command time, for example. It simply times how long a command tak...Read more »

Remap Caps Lock key for virtual console windows

My last blog entry explains how to use xmodmap to remap the Caps Lock key to the Escape key in X. That takes care of the keyboard mapping ...Read more »

Remap useless Caps Lock key in X

Caps Lock is in my opinion one of the most useless keys on a keyboard. Unless you own one of those keyboards specifically designed for Lin...Read more »

Test aplikasi gnome blog Tulisan ini saya buat menggunakan aplikasi gnome-blog yang berjalan di Sistem Operasi GNU/Linux Ubuntu 7.10 . Aplik...Read more »