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Month: October 2010

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Perl – Trim Text, Trim String

Perl – Trim Text, Trim String Left trim- ltrim or lstrip removes white spaces from the left side of a string: [perl] $str =~ s/^\s+//; [/perl] Right trim – rtrim or rstrip removes white spaces from the right side of a string: [perl] $str =~ s/\s+$//; [/perl] Trim Both [perl] $str =~ s/^\s+|\s+$//g [/perl] [perl] […]
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Recursively Expand a NIS Netgroup

Recursively Expand a NIS Netgroup @results=expand_ng(); # Given a netgroup, will return a list of members. Will recurse # netgroups if the $recurse flag is set sub expand_ng { my($netgroup)=@_; my(@returnng); my($ng)=`ypmatch $netgroup netgroup`; $? != 0 and return; #Don't continue for duff netgroups my($value); $ng =~ s/\s+/ /g; #Compress whitespace $ng =~ s/\s+,/,/g; #Remove […]
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RedHat vs Ubuntu – Useful Package Commands

RedHat vs Ubuntu – Useful Package Commands Task Red Hat/Fedora Ubuntu Refresh list of available packages Yum refreshes each time it’s used apt-get update Install a package from a repository yum install package_name apt-get install package_name Install a package file yum install package.rpm rpm -i package.rpm dpkg –install package.deb Remove a package rpm -e package_name […]
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Add a timestamp to every STDOUT line

Add a timestamp to every STDOUT line I found this useful for debugging and just handy to have in the toolbox. Alias within your profile! Use: ./anyscript_you_choose | ./addtime [perl] #!/bin/perl -w # filename: ./addtime my($old)=select(STDOUT); $|=1; select(STDIN); $|=1; select ($old); while(<>) { my($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year,$wday,$ydat,$isdst)= localtime (time); printf “%02d:%02d:%4d %02d:%02d:%02d %s”,$mday,$mon+1,$year+1900,$hour,$min,$sec,$_; } [/perl]
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