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Published on 21 Sep 2003Imagine you need to create the file -o but observe the following.
Imagine you need to create the file -o but observe the following.
Filenames with spaces proove to be a major pita because many code constructs do not properly handle them.
Colour escape sequences are useful for designing text user interfaces (TUI).
Modern keyboard offer so called multimedia keys which allow direct control over the browser or media player. But the keycodes which are generated by the individual keys are usually unknown to the system and, therefore, ignored.
Instead of letting tar recursively add files to the archive simply provide a file list on stdin.
Subversion has a built-in protocol variant that automatically tunnels repository access through SSH to the specified host.
Instead of connecting to a pserver CVS can be tunnelled through SSH to protect the versioned data.
Here is an example how to archive files removing leading directory names.
It is often useful to use line numbered code to document the stuff you implemented. So instead of manually adding them or writing YALNT (yet another line numbering tools) you better use nl.
The crosscompiling hint is now maintained by Daniel Baumann.