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Tips on Tables

 By Bob Mesibov Tutorials

Big data or small data, a lot of it comes these days as plain text arranged in rows and columns. Here are a few tips on working with tables of text, both in text editors and on the command line. CSV isn't what it seems. Text tables are often exported from databases and spreadsheets as…

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A Pivot Table In AWK

 By Bob Mesibov Tutorials

GNU AWK is a great tool for working with tables of data, and by using AWK arrays, you can quickly do column sums (and other calculations) based on unique values in another column (see below). Pivot tables in AWK are a bit trickier. In this article I do a slow walk through the code for a simple…

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Why I (sometimes) love regular expressions

 By Bob Mesibov Tutorials

Command line wizards are forever encouraging the rest of us to learn regular expressions (regex). We're told regex is elegant, powerful and incredibly useful. The downside is that regex can be seriously fiddly. One fly-spot out of place, and the code fails. For this reason I only use 'non-simple'…

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Scripting a 'Find-and-Replace' for big text files

 By Bob Mesibov Tutorials

EDIT 26/04/2014 I wrote the original fandr script to do single-word replacements in big files. To do multiple-word find-and-replace, the 'needle' variables have to be double-quoted, as in the revised script below. An example of a multiple-word replacement is at the end of this article. I use two…

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Multiple-item data entry with YAD

 By Bob Mesibov Tutorials

YAD (Yet Another Dialog) creates GUI dialogs for data entry, user notification, etc. It was written by Victor Ananjevsky and is described as a fork of Zenity. In fact, it greatly extends Zenity and has a very large number of handy options. Here I explain how to build a multiple-item data entry form…

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Scripting an OCR text archiver for Trove

 By Bob Mesibov Tutorials

Trove is the National Library of Australia's online database. It contains almost 400 000 000 digital items, including Australian newspaper articles from 1803 to 1954. Trove's newspaper portal is particularly useful. You can view an entire digitised newspaper page, or select (or search for) an…

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How to kill blank lines elegantly

 By Bob Mesibov Tutorials

If you do a Web search for 'linux delete blank lines' you'll find lots of command-line advice. Some of the advice, though, only applies to special cases. Here I explain two elegant and general methods for finding and deleting any blank lines in a text file. As a sample text I'll use the 8-line file…

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Building a gazetteer table from KML files

 By Bob Mesibov Tutorials

Geoscience Australia has a freely downloadable gazetteer of Australian placenames with more than 370 000 entries. The download is a .zip file (83 mb) containing a user guide together with placenames data in GML, KML and Microsoft Access (.mdb) formats. What I wanted from all that data was a simple…

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How to Run Own Online SMS Portal with playSMS in Linux

playSMS is an open-source SMS management software that allows you to send and receive SMS messages using various gateways and protocols, which is an excellent tool for businesses, organizations, or anyone who wants to manage SMS communication efficiently. In this article, we will guide you through the installation of playSMS on a Linux server, which […]

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KubeEdge Gets Its Diploma and Graduates at CNCF

Five years after it was accepted into the CNCF Sandbox project, KubeEdge becomes a graduated project at CNCF.

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CentOS Stream: The Perfect Distribution for Development Projects

CentOS Stream is a rolling-release Linux distribution that sits between Fedora, a bleeding-edge community project, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), the stable enterprise-ready platform. It’s essentially the testing ground for the next version of RHEL. While Fedora is often too cutting-edge for some use cases and RHEL focuses on long-term stability, CentOS Stream provides […]

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Why Fedora Is My Favorite Linux Distro for Productivity Tasks

Fedora is a modern and sleek Linux distro designed for workstations. Learn why it’s become my go-to system for productivity tasks.

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VirtualBox 7.1.4 Released, Here’s What’s New

VirtualBox 7.1.4 offers improved GUI, fixes for Linux kernel flickering, Windows 11 issues, and initial support for Linux kernel 6.12.

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KDE Plasma 6.2.1: October Bugfix Update Released

Plasma 6.2.1 desktop environment October update is out now bringing essential bug fixes, feature refinements, and fresh translations.

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SUSE Edge upgrade targets Kubernetes and Linux at the Edge

SUSE Edge 3.1 includes a new stack validation framework and an image builder tool that are aimed at improving the scalability and manageability of complex Kubernetes and Linux edge-computing deployments.

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About that brawl between the WordPress co-founder and WP Engine…

WordPress has been the most popular content management system for years — and WP Engine was one of the most popular WordPress hosting services around. Not long ago, everyone was happy. Now, it’s a miserable open-source business war. What happened?

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VirtualBox 7.1.4 Adds Initial Support for Linux Kernel 6.12 and Other Linux Changes

Coming only three weeks after VirtualBox 7.1.2, the VirtualBox 7.1.4 release is here to introduce automatic upgrading of the Linux Guest Additions via the Devices menu on ARM systems, improved flickering, black screen, and other screen update issues with recent Linux kernels, and adds initial support for the upcoming Linux 6.12 kernel series in Linux […]

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How to Install and Secure MongoDB on Ubuntu 24.04

MongoDB is an open-source, cross-platform, and distributed NoSQL (non-SQL or Non-Relational) database system. In this guide, we’ll show you how to install MongoDB on an Ubuntu 24.04 server.

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