Mike Whitaker articles - 14 total
Is your TextMate 2 folding corrupt?
Having trouble with corrupted/misplaced fold markers in a TextMate 2 file? Has something changed the...
Catalyst::Request body issues with the file position pointer
OK, so... For those using the Perl Catalyst web framework in ways involving structured request...
How Philips Hue Bridge discovery actually works
Having been bitten by a change in the Hue discovery protocol a while ago that I've only just got...
Upgrading MySQL 5.7 to MariaDB 10 on Ubuntu 18
FX: Stands up amid very large pile of yak hair Right. If you're ever in the unfortunate space of...
Design your own security vulnerability #2
Passwords. Every CEO's nightmare, surely, is to be woken with the news that their company's password...
Design your own security vulnerability #1
The first in probably an even more occasional series... None of these are new. But people keep making...
Shell command options you didn't know you needed #8
Another grep option! This also tracks back to #6 and #7 in this series, and to be honest, it's more...
Shell command options you didn't know you needed #7
grep has lots of options. This one's really a combination of three to do something nifty. On the...
Shell command options you didn't know you needed #6
Been a while, but here's a handy one I discovered over the weekend. Back to the trusty xargs, that...
Shell command options you didn't know you needed #5
Technically, this one's a Perl option, but... if your Perl usage is at the sysadmin/devops level (i.e...
Shell command options you didn't know you needed (or possibly even existed) #4
OK - this is the first one that surprised me in this series - #1 and #2 were things I kind of knew ha...
Shell command options you didn't know you needed #3
More well known, perhaps, than the previous two, but very useful for those of us building shell pipel...
Shell command options you didn't know you needed #2
(another in an occasional series) grep -m <matches> One of the many handy options to grep (th...
Shell command options you didn't know you needed #1
(The first in an occasional series.) mv -t <target> <files> Handy for throwing at xargs...