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xacobeo – graphical interface for running XPath queries

2017-12-20

how to make MediaWiki connect to a MySQL server on the same server through a socket in a non-standard location

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgDBserver

This is what I searched for in order to find the above article:

mediawiki mysql socket

2017-12-12

where do all those .gitkeep files come from? I did not create them

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7229885/what-are-the-differences-between-gitignore-and-gitkeep

So … I certainly have not ever created any .gitkeep in order to get Git to keep track of an empty directory. I rather suspect, that one of the utilities created them for me. I will observe that and report here later.

2017-12-07

GNU Coreutils: realpath: print the resolved file name – has a quite a few neat command line options

2017-12-06

EmacsWiki: Eshell Lnk File Support – but I would like to see the details of a Windows “.lnk” within emacs

https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EshellLnkFileSupport

2017-12-06

cygwin: cygutils: readshortcut – displays details of Windows “.lnk” files

https://cygwin.com/packages/x86_64/cygutils/ – a collection of simple utilities (core collection) – “readshortcut” is one of those utilities
/usr/share/doc/cygutils/PROGLIST – part of that package – quite worth having a look at

Try this command line:

$ readshortcut --fields --all --raw --windows *.lnk

2017-12-06

pylnker – a Python tool to parse Windows “.lnk” files (derived from a Perl tool)

https://github.com/HarmJ0y/pylnker
https://github.com/HarmJ0y/pylnker/blob/master/pylnker.py
https://code.google.com/archive/p/revealertoolkit/ – Perl script to parse LNK files: lnk-parse-1.0.pl
https://github.com/lcorbasson/revealertoolkit
https://github.com/lcorbasson/revealertoolkit/blob/master/tools/lnk-parse-1.0.pl

$ cd 'C:\Users\jochen.hayek\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup'
$ ~/git-servers/github.com/HarmJ0y/pylnker/pylnker.py *.lnk
$ ~/git-servers/github.com/lcorbasson/revealertoolkit/tools/lnk-parse-1.0.pl *.lnk

2017-12-06

cygpath — convert Unix and Windows format paths, or output system path information

https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/cygpath.html

2017-12-05

cygcheck — list system information, check installed packages, or query package database

https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/cygcheck.html

2017-12-05

keeping my files (scripts, RC files, Rakefiles) in Git repos makes my life a lot easier

Of course it is essential, that those Git repos can be accessed from everywhere.

https://github.com/JochenHayek/misc – my public Git repo
my private Git repo resides on my NAS

But I also have to acquire more Git skills. Luckily enough Git is “everywhere” (at home and at work), and I am able to exercise and study Git “everywhere”.

2017-12-04

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