Archive for January, 2006

Grep-tastic!

Simple problem: Show me the lines of code in a file that have opening parentheses without closing parentheses. Nested and multiple parens need not be considered. My solution: grep “(” testfile | grep -v “)” Better solution: grep ‘([^)]*$’ testfile

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Do you know what an octothorpe is?

Know what an octothorpe is? (Hint: It is one half of a hashbang) What about an arroba? No? In that case, while away a couple of trivia filled minutes at [ AskOxford: Symbols ]

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updgrade complete

Most of the upgrades should be transparent.  For those that write posts, my previous changes to the dashboard have temporarily been undone.  When time permits, I will bring back the streamlined version.

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Upgrades pending

I have had some posts in the queue, but I also have plans to upgrade and do some other maintenance tasks. Stay tuned.

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