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Support Net Neutrality

Internet neutrality is a big deal. It enables you, or anyone else, to complete at a true level playing field with large corporations. Please do support Net neutrality Early last year Mark Zuckerberg had pushed to break net neutrality in India. It failed! Read here more about Facebook’s biggest 


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cron errors only

If you run a cron job and you would like to only see the errors reported use cronic on Centos or chrronic on Ubuntu. The latter comes with the package moreutils apt-get install moreutils

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Search for a text string within files

At times you see that a particular image or so is not found when loading a web page and you are at a loss where the call came from. At least I had that today when I noticed that a menu image was called. The command to search for that is actually really straight forward: grep -rnw 'directory' -e 


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Minify files

I use yui-compressor to minify my files. It’s so easy. In Ubuntu (15.04) it’s available via apt-get. To install it (on Ubuntu) type the following in your terminal window apt-get install yui-compressor The command structure to run it is yui-compressor SOURCE > TARGET e.g. yui-compressor 


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Prepend and append example of a redirect file using awk and sed

I needed to generate a .htaccess redirect file where each line has a simple command redirect 301 old-file new-file The file called crawl-error.txt with all the required urls that needed a redirect was quite long so I did the following in no time. First ensure that the file is really a proper text 


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