Re: [PLUG] PLUG W Follow-up

[Fred Stluka <fred@bristle.com>]

David,

I'd love a replay at West, edited for time or not.

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On 11/18/14 4:05 PM, David Colon wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 12:41 AM, JP Vossen <jp@jpsdomain.org 
> <mailto:jp@jpsdomain.org>> wrote:
>
>     First, thanks to David for the really interesting AWS talk, I know I
>     learned a lot.  I also just read the last 10 posts in
>     http://tech.dcolon.org/wordpress/ too, some neat stuff!
>
>
> Thank you to PLUG West for having me. I really enjoyed doing the 
> presentation but wish that I could have completed the demo. If there 
> is interest, I can tweak the presentation for time and present it at 
> PLUG Central or West.
>
>     There's a bash Cookbook recipe similar to your rename one, but you
>     don't
>     need 'basename' or 'awk'.  See
>     https://www.safaribooksonline.com/library/view/bash-cookbook/0596526784/ch17.html
>     or for more of it search 'bash cookbook "renaming many files"' in
>     Google
>     books.
>
>     For the LVM one you might like the 'seq' command or just {1..15}. 
>     (Oh,
>     you used 'seq' in the BIND file post. :)
>
>
> Renaming many files is one of the interview questions that I 
> frequently use. The beauty of unix is that there are many ways to 
> accomplish a task.
>
>     Something that didn't come up but is relevant to some of the
>     discussions
>     is the ability to read and write from the clipboard.  Not sure how
>     to do
>     this on a Mac, but on Debian/Ubuntu/Mint:
>
>     $ sudo apt-get install xsel
>     $ alias gc='xsel -b'       # GetClip
>     $ alias pc='xsel -bi'      # PutClip
>     $ gc | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head | pc  # Top-10 list
>
>
> On the mac you can use pbcopy and pbpaste:
> sr35a:~ dcolon$ echo foobar | pbcopy
> sr35a:~ dcolon$ pbpaste
> foobar
> sr35a:~ dcolon$
>
> That reminds me of another problem that I encountered, and blogged 
> about, with copy/paste under Linux. I had the worst time getting 
> copy/paste working with Keepass under Linux. I eventually found 
> autocutsel and that fixed my problem. Read about it here:
>
> http://tech.dcolon.org/wordpress/copy-and-paste-for-keepass-under-linux/
>
> David
>
>
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