A verified step-by-step guide to installing Homebrew (Linuxbrew) on a Debian 13 "trixie" LXC unprivileged container, including group setup, prefix pre-creation, and multi-user configuration.
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FSM Diagrams in Pelican and Claude Code
Finite state machines turn up everywhere: protocol implementations, hardware controllers, UI flows, parsers. Drawing them well is useful but tedious …
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Book: Mastering the command line
Mastering the command line like a hacker by Xiaodong Xu
The book focuses on bash and zsh, which is great …
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Setting an alias in you .tcshrc
alias qrun 'qrsh -V -noshell -cwd !*'or bash
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To redirect stdout and stderr in bash we use:
./ShellFile.sh &> test.logHowever in tcsh that results in:
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Removal of substring:
string="test string" echo $string remove="test" short_string=${string#$remove} echo short_stringNote that inside the
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Creating new posts in Octopress is
rake new_post["Edit Posts"]which outputs the created filename.Posts are prefixed with date …
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I have decided to clean up my vim colorschemes. I have been using ir_black for sometime but it does not …
read more"Mountain Lion Setup, Part 3 : Little Snitch & Dotfiles"
Little Snitch
There is currently a preview (Beta) of [Little Snitch 3][littelsnitch3]. If you have not come across Little …
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Sometime a script needs to now the directory that it is executing from, the best solution for this is:
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If you are working on a new system or with multiple environments it is good to know what type of …
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"bash scripts and cron"
I have not fully read it but it looks like this is a good guide to bash scripting. A few …
read more"My Backup Strategy"
Considering various raid strategies I decided that Raid 5 would be too limiting and have previously found raid striping systems …
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With Webfaction you can create new users with there own home area but there is no straight forward way to …
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