Category Command line Fu

The two main things to do with a memcached cluster is getting a key and setting a key to a value. Below are examples of this, with parameters explained (something most examples miss for some reason?). Examples Connect to memcached:…

In the following I’m using a server from Webfaction, and my Tornado source code is hosted on Github. Some things are specific to those providers, but should be very easy to adapt. The following is organized into two sections.

To build nginx on Mac OS X Snow Leopard, I use the following options to configure ./configure –with-ld-opt=”-L/usr/local/lib” –with-cc-opt=”-I/usr/local/include” If the ld and cc options are not given, it results in an error reported in a ticket on the nginx…

To benchmark a HTTP server, you can use the command-line utility Apache Bench (command ab). If you have Python installed, you can start a HTTP server, e.g. running on port 10000, in any directory of your system. It will serve…

I use two ways to manage paths in Mac OS X: ~/.profile I use the first option when trying things out, and the second for managing the path more permanently. Example And example of the using to include…

You have a file sitting on your disc. You want to put a copy of the contents in your OS “clip board” so that you can paste it somewhere, e.g. on a website, without having to open the file in…

I have a (CSV) file that I want to split in two. I want all the even lines to go to one file, and all the odd lines to go to another file. $ ls -1 FILE [MAGIC] $ ls…