Can we generate a unique id for each PC, something like uuuidgen, but it will never change unless there are hardware changes? I was thinking about merging CPUID and MACADDR and hash them to generate a consistent ID, but I have no idea how to parse them using bash script, what I know is how can I get CPUID from
Is it possible to call a function which is declared below in bash?
I’m trying to create some error reporting using a Trap to call a function on all errors:
I’m confused about the difference or advantage (if any) of running a set of tasks in a .sh script using GNU parallel
I have a script that generates some output. I want to check that output for any IP address like
I’ve got 10k+ files totaling over 20GB that I need to concatenate into one file.
Recently I’ve been working with JS and I’m very enthusiastic about this language. I know that there is node.js for running JS at server side, but is there a shell that uses JS as a scripting language? If such thing exists, how usable & stable is it?
The following Perl script can convert CSV file to XLS file
I am always really hesitant to mess around with $IFS because it’s clobbering a global.
So I started using zsh. I like it all right. It seems very cool and slick, and the fact that the current working directory and actual command line are on different lines is nice, but at the same time, I’m noticing that zsh can be a bit slower than bash, especially when printing text to the screen.