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Command Line Warriors is about taking control of your own technology, it looks at our experiences of computing; especially using GNU/Linux, the Python programming language, the command-line and issues such as techno-ethics, best practices and whatever is cool now. If you take control of your technology then you are a Warrior too!

This site is your site too which means that you can contribute and get involved. You can leave comments using the facility provided. For me, the comments and discussions are by far the best part of the site. So please do have your say!

Latest Discussions

QuickSilver

January 5, 2009
Nice! Is there anyway to implement a ServerAliveInterval for long processes? This is because my our firewall keeps closing the connection based on inactive connections. Thanks,
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Tun

January 5, 2009
Hi, Do You know, haw can i get start date for tasks evolution? If exists the similar way to your example: i.get_due() ? I would like to have sth like ...
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Samuel Huckins

January 4, 2009
Great tips! I have had occasion to do a lot of MySQL instance migrations lately, so here is an improvement for Trick 1: mysqldump <DATABASE_NAME> [mysqldump_options] | gzip -c | ...
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George Glass

December 31, 2008
I don't really see the point in trying to make linux user-friendly or take over the desktop. We rule the servers the most important element of the entire game. Let ...
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bug

December 31, 2008
@Zeth: The hidden field does block some. Not perfect, but it does release some weight from the filtering system, as those are 100% false comments. Acctually, if you would have ...
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Zeth

December 31, 2008
Hi Eion, Yes that is an interesting approach also. It is the only approach given by default in the stock Django comments module, though it does not stop all comment ...
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Bug

December 30, 2008
Well... Sadly, and I guess you hate me for it, I use captcha. But at least it's not an image, so even if you visit using w3m [yey!] you can ...
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Eion

December 30, 2008
Other than server-side processing of comments, I like to add additional <input>'s and hide them in external css. Most of the time the fields are populated by spam-bots, and if ...
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Nostoc

December 27, 2008
... Mate possible because of the dull Kg8
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Nostoc

December 27, 2008
My bad, I meant the picture beneath 15, after close inspection my suggestion would be on 18. Instead of 18 : Qe2, I would have taken that knight with my ...
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Zeth

December 27, 2008
Nostoc, white takes the rook on 15, the rook is a better kill than a knight.
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Nostoc

December 26, 2008
I'm not that good at chess, but I have a question. At 15, why doesn't white simply take black's knight in C6 with the bishop? It's an easy kill, since ...
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Zeth

December 26, 2008
CorkyAgain, good question, I don't have a FreeBSD box available at the moment so I can't comment. On Linux at least watch does as I have described.
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CorkyAgain

December 25, 2008
Is the watch command you're describing a Linuxism? On my FreeBSD box, "man watch" seems to be describing something completely different.
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Binny V A

December 25, 2008
I have actually setup a site to store just short commands... http://txt.binnyva.com/
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Bassam essa

December 25, 2008
i try this line command elinks -source "http://www.e51g.com/" > resulthtml.txt its work done :) thx
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Bassam essa

December 25, 2008
thanx man i need to know how i can download html source page from elinks ? i try $ elinks - view HTML "http://www.google.com/" > resulthtml.txt but its dont work ...
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sam

December 25, 2008
Thanks for commenting the game. I'm new to chess and it's great to see your reasoning behind some of the moves. However, how do you know what to call the ...
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halfpi

December 24, 2008
I have to mention that on my HP nx 6325 Ubuntu install has been done in ~ 1h, but XP SP3 was not ready after 3h of working. Also Fedora ...
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tulcod

December 24, 2008
as for the grep problem, it's probably easier to do: grep needle -R .
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