Nifty scheduling/scripting tips? See this recurring calendar events thread for an example. Or, a cronjob that prints out the day's weather, output from remind, and a to-do list just before I wake up. Or David Seah's Compact Calendar. Don't be fooled by the categorization. This doesn't have to be techy. [more inside]
posted by d. z. wang on Sep 6, 2008 - 3 answers

Best *nix distro for SSH, RDC, router and print server. Or i could use windows if that would satisfy the conditions. [more inside]
posted by DJWeezy on Oct 11, 2007 - 17 answers

Calling all bash/nix gurus.. please help me! [more inside]
posted by provolot on Aug 8, 2006 - 10 answers

CVS panic. I just committed a loginfo file with a typo in it. Now any commit aborts at the logging stage, so I can't commit the fixed loginfo file. How the heck can I get it to commit? Is there a "force commit" or "ignore logging" flag? The CVS documentation and wiki has been of little help.
posted by DrJohnEvans on Oct 12, 2005 - 2 answers

sed: How do I use it to do a general search/replace on a bunch of files? The docs seem to believe all I have to do is feed it s/regexp/replacetext/g and a list of files and I'm off to the races, but rather than getting the files changed... [exciting conclusion inside] [more inside]
posted by namespan on Jun 29, 2004 - 7 answers