Shell function to create menu from ~/.ssh/config
Install slmenu then put this function in your startup: ssm() { ssh $(awk ‘/Host / && !/*/ { print $2 }’ ~/.ssh/config | slmenu) }
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emacs tip of the week #1: elscreen
Are you an emacs user? Are you a GNU screen user? If the answer to both of these questions is yes then install elscreen for buffer navigation in emacs.
Emacs vc-mode doesn’t support git push
So here’s a quick function to drop in your ~/.emacs (taken from here): (defun git-push-remote-origin () “run `git push'” (interactive) (when buffer-file-name (shell-command “git push”) (message “DONE! git push at %s” default-directory) ))
VirusAction script for clamsmtp
I’ve recently configured my MTA to drop emails with embedded MS Office Macros (a very popular way of distributing malware). You can get the odd valid macro-enabled Office doc, so I’ve written a script to alert me when emails are dropped, it’s available on GitHub Configure in /etc/clamsmtpd.conf as below: VirusAction: /usr/local/bin/clamsmtp-action.py -t postmaster@yourdomain.com (other …
Now this is what I call a good cookies prompt
zeal – offline documentation browser
I’ve looked at Dash on OSX enviously in the past, only recently discovered there’s a linux counterpart: zeal.
Remove line numbers from code in emacs
Useful if you’re copy & pasting. query-replace-regexp ^[[:digit:]]+\.? ? Or even better, define this function in your .emacs (defun remove-line-numbers () “remove line numbers” (interactive “*”) (beginning-of-buffer) (replace-regexp “^[[:digit:]]+\.? ?” “”))
Installing Apache 2.4 on Centos 6 with HTTP2 support
Download, compile & install openssl 1.02 somewhere (eg /usr/local/openssl102) IMPORTANT: config with -fPIC flag ./config –prefix=/usr/local/openssl102 -fPIC no-gost no-shared no-zlib && make && make install Download compile & install nghttp2 (straightforward, I went for default path – to ensure it’s picked up by apache module create /etc/ld.so.conf.d/local.conf with contents /usr/local/lib & run ldconfig unless this …
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sqlpython 1.7.3
Customizable alternative to Oracle’s SQL*PLUS command-line interface Source: sqlpython 1.7.3 : Python Package Index Prerequisites to install: Ensure you have oracle client libraries & ORACLE_HOME set (run the environment script) Create /etc/ld.so.conf.d/oracle.conf with contents of your lib directory (eg: /u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/xe/lib) and run ldconfig pip install cx-Oracle
Running ansible from a windows host
This is partly based on instructions from https://servercheck.in/blog/running-ansible-within-windows but uses a virtual environment and no checking out from Github / manually installing packages. Install Cygwin. Include following packages: python openssl / openssl-devel python-crypto python-openssl openssh Install & configure pip, virtualenv & virtualenvwrapper as per http://atbrox.com/2009/09/21/how-to-get-pipvirtualenvfabric-working-on-cygwin/ Create a virtual environment for ansible with mkvirtualenv –system-site-packages ansi …