/dev/fd0 (good scripts come in small packages)

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• 15:04, 16 January 2012 ‎SONAME versioning (hist) ‎[2,397 bytes] ‎Garden (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Not really related to scripting, but after the n-th epic failure against this beast I thought it's worth noting it down. As reported in the [http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/...")
• 11:24, 6 November 2011 ‎HTML Forms in Mechanize (hist) ‎[3,692 bytes] ‎Garden (Talk | contribs) (Created)
• 17:59, 18 September 2011 ‎Tee Python output to log file (hist) ‎[1,182 bytes] ‎Garden (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "This is a useful addition to a Fabric script I wrote I found it somewhere around, it's not mine -- I only added the definition of flush(). Just add something li...")
• 17:14, 18 September 2011 ‎Bash history to syslog (hist) ‎[1,923 bytes] ‎Garden (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Bash functions for logging all the commands of an interactive shell to syslog. They can easily be disabled (even by mistake), so this has nothing to do with security. Yet, they c...")
• 17:05, 18 September 2011 ‎Tools (hist) ‎[1,858 bytes] ‎Garden (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Here I list the tools I did not know about, and the discovery of which made me happy.  ;[http://www.gnu.org/s/parallel/man.html#name GNU Parallel] : (Debian: package moreutils). ...")
• 00:02, 16 September 2011 ‎Multiple pipe (hist) ‎[340 bytes] ‎Garden (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "How to filter the output of a single command through many different processes (e.g. zcat a compressed file once but pipe it to different independent filters), in bash: zcat fil...")
• 20:25, 15 September 2011 ‎Main Page (hist) ‎[1,782 bytes] ‎MediaWiki default (Talk)

What

From time to time I find or write some scripts, or pieces of scripts, or small programs, to help me in my daily system administration work. When the time it took to come out with a (IMHO) good solution makes it worth to share the result, or simply when I think I found a nice solution to a possibly common problem, I'll try to put it here.

Currently it's almost empty, I know. I had to start somewhere... :-)

What not

The idea is to put here what I made out to solve my problems. Although, in general, I try to write reusable and documented scripts/tools, it's not always the case, especially if I'm in a hurry.

Who

Just a couple of pointers: my home page, and my Google+ profile.

Get updates

At first I thought about creating a blog, then I choose a wiki as I found it more fit to my purpose. Both of them have pros and cons; in the case of the wiki, it's difficult to stay updated about "new posts". I haven't tried it yet, but the Recent Changes page has an Atom feed (and even a RSS one) which can be used for being notified when I modify something. Give it a try, and please report if it does not work.

Contribute

This wiki has the following rules:

• anyone can read;
• anyone can create an account;
• registered users can modify the Discussion pages (I'll remove anything which is not related to the topic);
• trusted users can modify any page.

So, if you'd like to discuss about something you read here, feel free to register and use the Discussion pages.