shell scripting

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Fun with scripting

2010-04-03

bash, hacking, HOWTO, Linux, misadventures, shell scripting, todo

So I've been farting around after a long break from doing much of anything on Linux. I was prompted by my new hard drive arriving.

I spent some time migrating data from five separate hard drives and a stack of DVDs. One of my next goals was to get backups working, so that I can back up from my SSD to this new drive.

I have an old backup script, but I decided that I could spend this afternoon screwing around with it to optimize it a little.

Using the wonderful mcedit which comes with Midnight Commander, I hacked away. Linux being what it is, there was a tangled horror of stuff I needed to try to remember, look up through my notes, get answers to and/or figure out.

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zsh command in a variable

2009-07-24

bash, HOWTO, shell scripting, zsh

command-in-a-variable.sh

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More cute code

2009-05-22

CLI, hacking, Linux, programming, shell scripting

Since I'm becoming more confident with shell programming every day, on a whim I jotted down some scripting ideas.

The notes sat there for only a day before I decided to stay up late and work on them. I actually managed to figure them out too!

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Re-learning to program - Fixing my broken brain

2009-05-20

bash, hacking, HOWTO, my writing, personal, programming, shell scripting, writing

Holy shit. I was able to complete my largest and most complex shell script to date, autotest.sh. It was a nearly total rewrite of a series of scripts that act as an automated testing environment.

That sounds fancy, but it's not. The basic idea is that as you edit, you save a lot. Well, I do. Now every time I save, the change is noticed and the script is run automatically. It even goes one step further, doing some debugging if your script fails to run.

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Make a script learn what shell it's running in

2009-05-19

bash, HOWTO, shell scripting, zsh

determine-shell.sh

I've been doing some work on a scripting test environment which would automatically run a test suite while I'm editing, triggered when I save.

I've already completed a rather complex version of it.. well I've completed three versions of it.

I want to merge all this effort into one mega-script which can be easily adapted to any scripting/programming language. Therein lies the problem. There are some tricks which I want to invoke in a bash and zsh environment in order to do some extra debugging.

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