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Response to "Writing Secure Shell Scripts"

https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/writing-secure-shell-scripts

The first "What file do you seek?" example is safe. I tried it in bash 4.4:

cd "$(mktemp -d)"
cat > script <<EOF
echo -n "What file do you seek? "

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A patch to make vpn-indicator-shell-extension work for SNX

This is a patch to the VPN Indicator Gnome Shell Extension to make it work for the SNX VPN.

Links for the VPN Indicator Gnome Shell Extension:

• VPN Indicator
  https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1134/vpn-indicator/

• github.com/howdoicomputer/vpn-indicator-shell-extension

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Unofficial Bash Strict Mode

Sometimes a programming language has a "strict mode" to restrict unsafe constructs. E.g., Perl has use strict, Javascript has "use strict", and Visual Basic has Option Strict. But what about bash? Well, bash doesn't have a strict mode as such, but it does have an unofficial strict mode:

set -euo pipefail

set -e

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Switch to Liberation from DejaVu for better font-handling in Firefox

Test page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Kaldari/Font_test

Firefox defaults to the system defaults, so it's best to make the change at the system level than in Firefox preferences.

First, check current defaults

for family in serif sans-serif monospace Arial Helvetica Verdana "Times New Roman" "Courier New"; do

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Using maven as a downloader

I needed to download Oracle JDBC jar files for use with my database query tool. Oracle JDBC drivers have been available in the public official Maven repository since September 15, 2019. They extended it to include all supported releases in February, 2020. (link1 [link2] [link3] [link4]).

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GDoc bug?

I've found that pasting into a Google Document produces an unexpected result.

Minimal test case

Copy the following minimal test case:

A link

and paste it into a GDoc.

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Quick minimal config for shell and vim

For when a full dotfiles setup is overkill.

Installation Instructions

curl https://gist.githubusercontent.com/robin-a-meade/b83dd635076993c4c25b7115d0b5da32/raw/install.sh | bash

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reddit_created — A bash script to lookup the creation date of a reddit post or comment

Example

[robin@laptop ~] $ reddit_created https://www.reddit.com/r/redditisfun/comments/48dk3e/see_actual_date_of_comment_instead_of_2_months/
Mon Feb 29 02:41:34 PM HST 2016
Tue Mar  1 12:41:34 AM GMT 2016

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Change column order for exa long listing

Related issue:

• configurable column order (for long output) [feature request] #161
  ^{ogham/exa#161}

Temporary workaround

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