Today, I will publish Vagrant configuration to set up DokuWiki instance. It is just a handy reference, as described in the earlier blog post.
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I have successfully used Google Drive and Insync to organize all of the e-books that I have acquired during the last years. Currently plan to upload them to a personal DokuWiki instance since I use it more every day. Before I can start, I need to extract cover images to ensure that I will get […]
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How to remotely check PostgreSQL version
Today I will shortly describe how you can remotely check the PostgreSQL version and use it inside shell scripts. This ability comes in handy at times, as it can be used to perform different tasks depending on the returned database version.
There are two ways to non interactively provide a password for the psql command (PostgreSQL interactive terminal). Each method allows you to quickly write shell scripts using terminal-based PostgreSQL utilities as you can provide user credentials from the password file or environment variables.
At the beginning of the last year, I wrote about VirtualBox image conversion. Today, I will continue this topic further and describe how to control the virtual machine using the command line.
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How to automate mouse and keyboard
Recently I was wondering if it would be possible to automate mouse and keyboard actions. The answer is obviously yes as you can use xautomation and xdotool tools. I will describe them in a couple of simple examples.
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How to remove comments from a shell script
The easiest way to remove comments from a shell script is to use sed (stream editor for filtering and transforming text) command.
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How to generate QR Codes
Quick Response Codes are appearing everywhere. You can see them in museums, near the tourist attractions or all over the web. There is no doubt that QR Codes are useful as they can contain any information within reasonable limits.