Occasionally I find myself wanting to removing leading and/or trailing occurrences of a character or string from a larger string in bash. A couple common uses are removing quotes, or…
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Is your Ubuntu MOTD warning you of a zombie process? What’s the scoop with that last line “There is 1 zombie process“, is my operating system getting caught up in…
I recently wrote about running an ActiveX component without Internet Explorer. I used that technique to come up with a shell script front-end for downloading, unpacking and running an executable…
One approach would be to encode everything, but the approach I took was to just encode things I thought might be problematic to pass over the query string. URL (a.k.a…