Geek Pit

It’s a common sysadmin task to want to change permissions on all the
files and subdirectories under a top-level directory. You could just
use the ‘-R’ switch
to chmod,
but what if your files and directories need different permissions? One
scenario that comes up is with shared directories - you have a
directory tree that has to be writable by users […]

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href=”http://blog.unixlore.net/2006/03/using-emacs-to-edit-blog-posts.html”>I
write blog posts with HTML markup, and I sometimes want to get a
fairly accurate word count of my posts. By accurate I mean that HTML
tags themselves as well as quoted values
are not counted as words. There
are a lots of utilities and scripts that do word counting, from the
venerable Unix ‘wc’ to an elisp subroutine in […]

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