janmoesen

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bio	website	jan.moesen.nu
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I still write "Internet" with a capital I. Does that mean I am officially old?

Some of my dot files are available in my Tilde repository on GitHub.

I use several productivity-enhancing bookmarklets for easier web browsing.

	1,094 reputation	bio	website	jan.moesen.nu	visits	member for	1 year, 7 months
29 badges		location	Belgium		seen	Nov 1 '12 at 17:52

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Oct 11	awarded	Yearling
Sep 22	comment	List X random files from a directory Gilles: quite right, which is why I said "Note that neither version takes duplicates into account." You could still do it in pure Bash, if you do not care about time complexity and rebuild the array each time you remove a random one from it. Not even close to a one-liner, then, but of course that was not a requirement.
Sep 18	comment	List X random files from a directory This is the quick and dirty way, and I would use it, too — for a one-off script. For anything more durable, avoid parsing the output of `ls`.
Sep 18	answered	List X random files from a directory
Jul 19	comment	Difference between “echo $SHELL” and “which bash” Allow me to spamvertise the `wtfis` function from my dotfiles: github.com/janmoesen/tilde/blob/01a9f86/.bash/commands#L719 — it combines `type`, `file` and `ls` to show as much information as possible.
Jul 16	comment	Piping in awk scripts If you would still like to build your own, you might want to have a look at `stat` and build the desired output yourself, instead of tweaking the output of `ls`.
Jul 16	answered	Execute remote script with local parameter value
Jul 16	comment	Execute remote script with local parameter value Note that if `$myparameter` contains spaces, it will split on the server side. Bash's `printf` has a `%q` format that you could use. I have some example code, but it does not fit here. I'll create a new answer for it.
Jul 5	answered	is there any command like “wall” that runs a “command” in all terminals
May 31	answered	Execute on the basename of a find command
Mar 29	comment	using watch with ssh Never mind my answer. The forced pseudo-tty allocation is much easier.
Mar 28	answered	Why does sftp hide the log from stdout?
Mar 28	answered	using watch with ssh
Mar 28	answered	how to forbid a command without a permission
Mar 28	comment	How to make `find` output full absolute file names? Even so you should quote that: "`pwd`". Try it: mkdir '/tmp/foo bar' && cd !#:1 && find `pwd`; rmdir !#:1.
Nov 22	revised	How can I make bash more readable? fix typo: should be double quotes, not backticks around the variable (the rest is padding: "Edits must be at least 6 characters;" — meh)
Nov 22	suggested	suggested edit on How can I make bash more readable?
Nov 22	comment	How to print certain columns by name? This also requires knowing the column numbers. Just because you name them `id`, `name` and `age`, does not change the fact that the order is hard-coded in your `read` line.
Nov 16	revised	Writing a shell script to take output of an executable and perform some calculation s/calulation/calculation/
Nov 16	suggested	suggested edit on Writing a shell script to take output of an executable and perform some calculation