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How to easily add colored text output in bash scripts

Here is small snippet that can give your shell scripts some nice output: colortext.sh As with the debug.sh script, just download it to the same directory as your own script and add it with

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It contains one simple function called text with the syntax text <color> “text to be output”. Color can be red, [...]

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How to get Teamspeak 3 running on a current Linux

Teamspeak is know for lagging a bit behind with development.
The last few days I have been upgrading my servers to current distributions, today the Voice servers were on the list to get Debian 6 / Ubuntu 11.04. And again I ran into problems with Teamspeak, turns out they won’t work with libmysqlclient 16 libraries and [...]

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What plugins is that website running?

While having a look at nikito yesterday I stumbled accross cms-explorer. It’s an interesting little program that checks the themes/modules/plugins installed in common CMS systems (Drupal, WordPress, Joomla! and Mambo), with automatic exploration for Drupal and WordPress. It also has some nice bonus features like providing a list of known issues for plugins found by [...]

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How to add debugging to shellscripts

Debugging bash scripts is pretty straightforward, throwing around a couple echo and set -x quickly gives you what you need. But what if you want to add a nice breakpoint,  debugging to lots of paces in the code or turn all debugging on or off at once? Then this little script I wrote is the [...]

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Disemvoweling

Talk about weird words … ok, according to Wikipedia disemvoweling is the term for replacing or removing vowels from words. Commonly used as a tool for moderating.  I’m pretty sure everyone has run across  certain disemvoweled  words on the internet like f*ck or sh*t. Anyway I went and made a pure html/javascript page that does just that, [...]

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