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httpie – to curl or not to curl
Curl is the defacto CLI tool for interacting with web services and other non-HTTP services such as FTP or LDAP. Linux or Unix system administrators as well as develo
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82Linux
Decoding firefox cookies – sqlite cookies viewer
Web sites store information on local machines of site visitors using cookies. On subsequent visits, the browser sends the data from the cookies on the visitors machi
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83Linux
Shell script: US federal holidays
This script is written based on the list of U.S. federal holidays I found in Wikipedia - Wikipedia - U.S. Federal holidays. Some of the dates, such as New Year, are
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84Linux
strace – tracing syscall by example
The strace command allows us to trace the system calls made by a program. In this blog, I will show you how you can use strace to capture some of the syscalls made b
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85Linux
Could not chdir to home directory: Permission denied
Problem: every time a user logs in, they get "Could not chdir to home directory....Permission denied" error, although they can login to the system and change to thei
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86Linux
How do you compare two folders and copy the difference to a third folder?
This is my first attempt in response to a question posed in one of StackExchange sites for Unix/Linux - How do you compare two folders and copy the difference to a t
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87Linux
Extract bookmarks or favorites from your Firefox browser
Getting the URLs in your favorites or bookmarks as a plain list.
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88Linux
Script to download youtube videos as mp3
In order to use this script, you need to do certain things in advance -
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89Linux
Modifying user-agent in curl or wget
Recently I was trying to download numerous files from a certain website using a shell script I wrote. With in the script, first I used wget to retrieve the files, bu
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90Linux
Prevent script execution in specific web directories
Most web based attacks tend to occur by uploading malicious scripts into world writable directories such as cache, and then letting the web server execute those scri
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