I work in linux a lot… not bsd. So the OSX (bsd style) implementation of sed really throws me for a loop when I go text-file-spelunking, whats worse is that my scripts using sed aren’t portable between the two OSs. A quick googling this morning landed me here: http://wiki.octave.org/wiki.pl?OctaveForMac which gives perfectly good instructions on [...]
I keep marking this as unread in google reader so that Its there when I need it… which probably means I should just blog it… automating firefox via telnet
I hacked together this little C program from this other little c program. Basically acts as an execution wrapper that lets you fork() and detach and run a command in the background with a pidfile and log file for program output. So far I havent had any problems with it… but then I’m not a [...]
So, the vast majority of every day administrative command line utilities for Linux use -v as the switch for verbose…. when you use -v you EXPECT verbose. Well sometimes you get that one package which just CANNOT follow the rules. Someone has to think outside the box, someone has to be a unique snowflake. That [...]