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  • I never learned this in school.

    Actually, I haven’t had to format a Linux partition manually since (maybe) I experimented with Slackware in 1995. So, when I had a nice little 400 GB USB HD with three partitions (two NTFS, one Linux), I was somewhat at a loss as to how to proceed. I found this handy guide to partitioning and…

  • Quick ascii table in hex.

    The Linux Quick Hacks page inspired on this one: perl -e ‘foreach $x (32..126) { printf(“:: %c %x ::”, $x, $x) } print “n”‘ Output::: 20 :::: ! 21 :::: ” 22 :::: # 23 :::: $ 24 :::: % 25 :::: & 26 :::: ‘ 27 :::: ( 28 :::: ) 29 :::: *…

  • sed guides.

    I’m using sed (along with awk and shell scripts) to extract data from my website files. Frequently Asked Questions about sed, the stream editor sed one-liners Colorized list_urls.sed