Ferry Boender
Programmer, DevOpper, Open Source enthusiast.
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Excluding results of a ‘find’ command (inverting tests)
In kind of a follow up to my previous post on using find and sed to search and replace multiple files, I found out something else. I needed to find and replace something in every file, except for any files which had “.svn” in them. After struggling for a few fruitless minutes with -regex, I […]
Templum v0.4.0 released (Simple PHP templating)
I’ve released Templum v0.4.0 Templum is an extremely lightweight, simple yet powerful and fast templating engine for PHP. It re-uses the power of PHP itself for rendering templates, but provides additional features making it easier to write templating code. Rendering templates using Templum is very fast; it approximates native PHP rendering speed for include() statements. […]
Linux search and replace
I always kept a small Python script around for searching and replacing in Linux. Turns out that GNU sed has an inline edit mode which I didn’t know about: -i[SUFFIX], –in-place[=SUFFIX] edit files in place (makes backup if extension supplied) This makes searching and replacing in files as simple as: find . -name “*.txt” -print0 […]
Handling network mounts on a very mobile laptop?
I have a laptop that travels with me to work as well as being used at home. I have a number of network CIFS mounts that I like to have available when I am at home, so I have them set to “auto” in /etc/fstab. […] The problem is that when I shift locations, I […]
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