Month: November 2017

  • plan9port AKA “Plan 9 from User Space”

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_User_Space https://github.com/9fans/plan9port https://9fans.github.io/plan9port/man/man1/intro.html : do not put the Plan 9 utilities’ directory a the beginning of your PATH! “9base is a port of various original Plan 9 tools for Unix, based on plan9port“: https://github.com/UNGLinux/9base https://git.suckless.org/9base https://tools.suckless.org/9base Optware-ng one my Synology NAS has a 9base package: root@DiskStation $ ipkg files 9base /opt/lib/9base/bin/… /opt/lib/9base/lib/… /opt/share/man/man1/…

  • ipkg, opkg, Optware, Optware-ng, Entware, Entware-ng for my Synology NASes

    Linux package management systems for embedded systems. The utilities: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ipkg – the history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/opkg – ipkg fork, the currently popular one The repositories: Optware, Optware-ng, Entware, Entware-ng: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optware – how it all started https://github.com/Optware/Optware – outdated https://github.com/Optware/Optware-ng – an Optware fork using opkg – supports PPC, i686, …; does not support x86-64 – this page has the installation instructions – they do use…

  • WordPress: how do I remove “Uncategorized” from posts with more than 1 category?

    https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/232436/how-do-i-remove-uncategorized-from-posts-with-more-than-1-category A couple of months ago I had a bad plugin installed for a couple of days, and it deliberately removed categories from my posted articles. In the meantime I added proper categories again more or less systematically, but those articles where still tainted with the category “Uncategorized“. Now this is a way to clean…

  • how to move files from one git repo to another (not a clone), preserving history

    https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1365541/how-to-move-files-from-one-git-repo-to-another-not-a-clone-preserving-history http://gbayer.com/development/moving-files-from-one-git-repository-to-another-preserving-history/

  • my ‘git log’ shows plain ESC sequences – how to get this right?

    http://git.661346.n2.nabble.com/git-log-escape-symbols-shown-as-ESC-33-and-ESC-m-td7602089.html https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25332598/how-to-suppress-display-of-escape-sequences-in-diff Until right now my LESS environment variable did not include “R” for passing through ANSI codes. Solutions: Either I add “R” explicitly, or I start git w/o LESS in its environment: $ env LESS=-MMiR git log $ env -u LESS git log

  • rcs2git using Perl, Ruby, AWK

    https://github.com/knuta/rcs2git – using Perl https://github.com/JochenHayek/rcs2git – using Perl – I forked knuta’s version https://github.com/arnoldrobbins/simple-rcs2git – using AWK https://github.com/Oblomov/rcs-fast-export – using Ruby https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1619737/migrate-project-from-rcs-to-git