Checkout changed files between two revisions from Subversion
I sometimes want to checkout only files that changed between two revisions in Subversion.
bash
Bash: loop over all lines of a file (the right way)
I have to admit that I’m a candidate for the Useless use of cat award sometimes.
Suppress column names on MySQL command line output
I use the MySQL command line interface regularly to fetch some data from a DB. Usually I want to have to column names as well, but if you want process the ou...
MySQL command line return values and Bash scripting
As I already told in Suppress column names on MySQL command line output I use the command line interface of MySQL quite often. Especially if you want to do s...
Convert a text file from UTF-8 to ISO-8859-1
From time to time you stumble upon the problem of character encodings. You get a file in encoding A, but prefer it in encoding B.
SSH Bash completion
Ich bin ja ein großer Fan der bash completion. Damit kann ich nicht nur die Pfade, Dateien und Kommandos per Tab erweitern, sondern auch Hostnamen, Gruppen u...
Using zenity for interactive bash scripts
Zenity is for Gnome2 what gdialog was for Gnome1. You can use it display various kinds of dialog boxes from your shell scripts. Although one might think that...