Bash – Apokalyptik, in blog form

October 6, 2009 Apokalyptik Bash

If you’re ever in a situation where something is only happening intermittently, and only on a live server, and only…

December 11, 2008 Apokalyptik Bash

This is a simplistic use of the pattern that I wrote about in my last post to wait on multiple…

December 5, 2008 Apokalyptik Bash

You know that you can run something in the background in a bash script with ( command )&, but a…

July 7, 2008 Apokalyptik Bash

This is something that has always annoyed me about bash scripts… The fact that it’s difficult to run /path/to/script.sh --foo=bar…

June 19, 2008 Apokalyptik Bash

We use dirname() a lot in php to make relative paths work from multiple locations like so. The advantages are…

May 9, 2008 Apokalyptik Bash

I’ve written a little something which is gaining some traction internally, and I always intended to share it with the…

October 24, 2007 Apokalyptik Bash

I recently found that you can close bash file descriptors fairly easily, it goes like this: exec 0>&- # close…

August 20, 2007 Apokalyptik Bash

Let us pretend for a moment that you have a critical system which can *just* handle the strain that it’s…

May 18, 2007 Apokalyptik Bash

Sometimes it’s desirable to have a chain of commands backgrounded so that a multi-step process can be run in parallel.…