http://blog.mecworks.com Technology, Linux, Photography, Science, Cycling, Outdoor Activities and other interests. Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:49:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 http://blog.mecworks.com/articles/2010/05/05/most-popular-technology-related-posts/ http://blog.mecworks.com/articles/2010/05/05/most-popular-technology-related-posts/#comments Wed, 05 May 2010 16:45:34 +0000 marc http://blog.mecworks.com/?p=392 Looking over the stats for the last few years, it’s interesting to see what the most popular posts have been. Here’s the top 5: GMRS J-Pole Antenna Bash Scripting Tip: Running a script as root Bash Scripting Tip: processing filenames with spaces Bash scripting tip: Convert IP address to HEX 4×8 plywood sheet 1″ and [...]

]]> http://blog.mecworks.com/articles/2010/05/05/most-popular-technology-related-posts/feed/ 0 http://blog.mecworks.com/articles/2007/07/05/bash-scripting-tip-convert-ip-address-to-hex/ http://blog.mecworks.com/articles/2007/07/05/bash-scripting-tip-convert-ip-address-to-hex/#comments Thu, 05 Jul 2007 20:43:01 +0000 marc http://blog.mecworks.com/?p=242 I was working on a project at work to make installation of SLES 10 servers easier in the lab that I work in. One of the features of SuSE products is to save the configuration of a machine into an XML config file that will be later used by AutoYast to clone the machine. This [...]

]]> http://blog.mecworks.com/articles/2007/07/05/bash-scripting-tip-convert-ip-address-to-hex/feed/ 7 http://blog.mecworks.com/articles/2006/02/23/bash-scripting-tip-running-a-script-as-root/ http://blog.mecworks.com/articles/2006/02/23/bash-scripting-tip-running-a-script-as-root/#comments Thu, 23 Feb 2006 19:12:17 +0000 marc http://blog.mecworks.com/?p=171 When scripting admin type tools in bash, many times you need to run a script as root. A script sometimes requires mounting file systems, adding users, moving/editing/renaming files and some other things that the user executing the script may not have rights to do. In my case, I have written some bash scripts to help [...]

]]> http://blog.mecworks.com/articles/2006/02/23/bash-scripting-tip-running-a-script-as-root/feed/ 8 http://blog.mecworks.com/articles/2005/09/23/bash-scripting-tip-processing-filenames-with-spaces/ http://blog.mecworks.com/articles/2005/09/23/bash-scripting-tip-processing-filenames-with-spaces/#comments Fri, 23 Sep 2005 17:06:45 +0000 marc http://blog.mecworks.com/?p=130 I can’t take credit for this. Stuart Jansen of Guru Labs referenced Tensai‘s brilliance (nice play on words Stuart. For thoes who don’t know, ‘tensai’ in Japanese means smart or brilliant). Tensai is one of the members of PLUG and is also on irc.freenode.net’s #utah most of the time. Tensai in turn blames Hans Fugal [...]

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