Month: June 2018

Emacs Lisp Package Archives (ELPA)

http://elpa.gnu.org/ – GNU Emacs Lisp Package Archive http://melpa.org – Milkypostman’s Emacs Lisp Package Archive http://melpa.org/#/getting-started I first came across MELPA through jira-markup-mode: http://melpa.org/#/jira-markup-mode https://github.com/mnuessler/jira-markup-mode

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Travis CI

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travis_CI https://travis-ci.org – free services https://travis-ci.com – payed services A nice Travis CI sample project: https://github.com/mnuessler/jira-markup-mode

getent – “get entries from administrative database”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getent https://manpages.debian.org/unstable/manpages/getent.1.en.html The getent command displays entries from databases supported by the Name Service Switch libraries, which are configured in /etc/nsswitch.conf. If one or more key arguments are provided, then only the entries that match the supplied keys will be displayed. Otherwise, if no key is provided, all entries will be displayed (unless the database does not support enumeration). My DS713+ (Intel… Continue reading getent – “get entries from administrative database”

comparing /proc/12345/cmdline on Linux — “diff –text” vs “diff –brief –text” vs “cmp –silent”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procfs#Linux A cmdline “file” contains NUL characters, so “diff” needs to be used with “–text” otherwise it will fail anyway. I chose process ID 12345 deliberately, it is just a placeholder. $ cp /proc/12345/cmdline $HOME/cmdline $ ll /proc/12345/cmdline ~/cmdline -r–r–r– 1 root root 0 2018-06-12 09:22:50 /proc/12345/cmdline -r–r–r– 1 user users 45 2018-06-12 09:48:19 /homes/user/cmdline #… Continue reading comparing /proc/12345/cmdline on Linux — “diff –text” vs “diff –brief –text” vs “cmp –silent”