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Bashism: Convert the case of a variable

Following on with more Bash version 4 Shell coding notes, here’s a way (as always with Bash, there’s so many ways to do anything) to ensure a variable is all lowercase characters (or all uppercase): a=Hello echo ${a,,} hello You … Continue reading

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MapD: Massive Throughput Database Queries with LLV…

MapD: Massive Throughput Database Queries with LLVM on GPUs. devblogs.nvidia.com/parallelforall…

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gatling – a high performance web server. http://t….

gatling – a high performance web server. fefe.de/gatling/

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AIs learn from us: “The best way for AI machines t…

AIs learn from us: “The best way for AI machines to learn is by feeding them huge data sets of annotated examples” technologyreview.com/view/538616/go…

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Excellent news that Linux Foundation is funding th…

Excellent news that Linux Foundation is funding these core Infrastructure open-source projects. linuxfoundation.org/news-media/ann…

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Loads of great Linux Monitoring info from Netflix…

Loads of great Linux Monitoring info from Netflix Engineers. brendangregg.com/blog/2015-06-2…

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The Battle Eternal: “64 Network DO’s and DONT’s fo…

The Battle Eternal: “64 Network DO’s and DONT’s for Game Engines. Part IV: Great TCP-vs-UDP Debaithare.com/64-network-dos…9n0p

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Use sed to delete lines between text phrases

How to remove lines from stdin between and including the 2 lines as fields in a sed expression: sed “/textline1/,/textline2/d” This will delete from the input all lines between a line containing the text ‘textline1’ and ‘textline2’. If you have … Continue reading

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Good intro/info on CoreOS: The Cloudcast (.NET): T…

Good intro/info on CoreOS: The Cloudcast (.NET): The Cloudcast #197 – Tectonic Shifts at CoreOS pca.st/e5vE

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Some Bash-isms

Being a “code daily” type of open-source SysAdmin/Operations Manager, I’ll post here a ‘tricks & tips’ that I’ve found useful when using and programming in the Bash Shell. This one notes how to replace a Bash variable name with another … Continue reading

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