#124: Exclude /etc/hosts from bash_completion

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on October 29, 2012, 10:47 PM UTC   —   from   92049143cabb7ba896d7c06e19906303_small yliu    ( 1,660 views )
I just installed the homebrew package bash_completion, hoping to get completion on my SSH commands. Unfortunately, I also use my /etc/hosts file as an ad blocker. This results in bash completion completing my ssh hostnames with a ton of ad servers that I...
Tags: bash, /etc/hosts, SSH, hosts
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#91: piping stderr and stdout

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on April 21, 2010, 05:58 PM UTC   —   from   148c663fd665c53518538e093ce3c2ab_small kueda    ( 756 views )
Well, I think I've already looked this up and forgotten it twice.
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#51: Broken shell command substitution in crontab

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on June 04, 2009, 11:05 AM UTC   —   from   92049143cabb7ba896d7c06e19906303_small yliu    ( 2,034 views )
In a cronjob, I want to execute a date sub-command and substitute the results in place into the overall shell command. Something like: 1 5 * * * bash -c 'cp /foo/bar /foo/bar.$(date +%Y%m%d).sql' Unfortunately, this breaks with an error at runtime: /bin...
Tags: shell scripting, crontab, Linux, cronjob, cron, bash, shell, UNIX
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