Posts Tagged “freebsd”
Incremental Backup on FreeBSD with tar
by enum on May 10, 2010
Recently the rsync server at work broke down, and I needed a quick solution for incremental backup using just FTP. As it turns out, the FreeBSD version of tar is not GNU tar. So in order to use the following (…)
Functional Programming with the Unix Command Line
by enum on June 25, 2009
I was pondering the unix command line the other day while reading sed & awk, and I came to the following revelation: variables aside, the unix command line is a lot like functional programming. Using the command line, you can (…)
Replace Text Recursively with sed
by enum on June 17, 2009
Here is a quick little trick I discovered today when I needed to replace text in multiple files recursively: grep -rl -e <searchterm> * | xargs sed -i .bak ‘s/searchterm/newterm/i’ There might be a problem with files that have spaces (…)