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Comment on 12 may 1953 to 11 aug 2008 – cindy lee myers by the impact of death : NGM Planet

the impact of death : NGM Planet — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:34:29 +0000

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Comment on 2.5 months by antipaucity › denita smith, 1981-2007

antipaucity › denita smith, 1981-2007 — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 18:35:34 +0000

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Comment on end6 must die by antipaucity

antipaucity — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 07:31:01 +0000

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Comment on shell scripting by antipaucity

antipaucity — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 07:46:05 +0000

Fair enough – rarely if ever see the $() construct in the environments I’ve been exposed-to: but good to know about

Comment on shell scripting by Alexei

Alexei — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:28:24 +0000

Legibility. I work with UNIX for about 15 yrs now, shell-scripting probably the same. I *know* the ticks well enough. But every now and then, I still get caught in a messy sequence of ‘ and ” and `, mostly when they’re nested.

Thus, replacing the backtick with $( ) makes things one degree less messy.

IMHO, naturally

Comment on shell scripting by antipaucity

antipaucity — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 03:51:38 +0000

Thanks, @Alexei – I do typically do a usage of some kind, and of course checking your input is *always* a good idea =D

Curious, though – why is the $() preferable to “ for grabbing the output of an exec’d command into the variable?

Comment on shell scripting by Alexei

Alexei — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 01:52:04 +0000

Also, you might want to turn the usage message into a function. I do that all the time:

———- cut here ———–
usage() {
echo “usage: ${0##*/} [on|off]” >&2
exit 1
}

# and then, some parameter checking
[[ -z "$1" || -z "$2" ]] && usage
[[ "$2" == "on" || "$2" == "off" ]] || usage
———- cut here ———–

Comment on shell scripting by Alexei

Alexei — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 01:10:16 +0000

Warren,

just a style/good-practice recommendation:

Instead of:
SERVICES=`chkconfig –list | cut -f 1 | grep -v ^$ | grep -v ‘:’ | sort`

Use:
SERVICES=$(chkconfig –list | cut -f 1 | grep -v ^$ | grep -v ‘:’ | sort)

It’s easier to read than the ticks.

Comment on screen… but for x by antipaucity

antipaucity — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 05:24:56 +0000

http://serverfault.com/questions/73091/linux-to-linux-remote-desktop

Comment on engaged by Veritas Aequitas » Blog Archive » 28 done

Veritas Aequitas » Blog Archive » 28 done — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 03:25:10 +0000

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