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Comment on Split strings and join lists using Bash by Jacobo de Vera

Jacobo de Vera — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 19:38:25 +0000

@Sean, I ended up putting all my bash and Vim config files up in github:

Particularly, you can find the functions mentioned in this post here:

Comment on Split strings and join lists using Bash by Sean S

Sean S — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 17:03:35 +0000

If you ever get a chance to post your newest versions of split and join I would greatly appreciate it.
I am writing a few string and list manipulation functions in pure BASH and it would be nice to se some code even if it is using AWK and SED

Comment on GNOME Network Manager Applet With Multiple Users by Jacobo de Vera

Jacobo de Vera — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 06:36:43 +0000

Excellent idea, I’ll definitely give it a try. Thanks!

Comment on GNOME Network Manager Applet With Multiple Users by Pingwin

Pingwin — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 00:52:42 +0000

Hi,
I tried to automatize this kind of workaround
Here is a script which I put to gnome-session-properties for all users.
It checks nm-applet status and username.
In case it’s running under another user it kills nm-applet (you need to modify /etc/sudoers of course) and start it again.
So you don’t need to kill nm-applet manually, just add it to gnome autostart.

nm-applet-reload.sh:
#!/bin/sh
LOG=/path/to/nm-applet-reload.log
DATE=`date +%F_%T`
############################
if [ `ps -ef|grep -v grep|grep /usr/bin/nm-applet|grep \`whoami\`|wc -l` == 0 ]; then
echo $DATE >> $LOG
whoami >> $LOG
sudo /usr/bin/killall nm-applet >>$LOG 2>&1
/usr/bin/nm-applet –sm-disable >>$LOG 2>&1 &
echo “nm-applet RESTARTED” >> $LOG
fi

Enjoy it
regards from CZE
//Pingwin

Comment on GNOME Network Manager Applet With Multiple Users by Erwan

Erwan — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 21:15:33 +0000

Thanks a lot for this tip. I just installed Ubuntu Lucid, and the bug is still there . I really had to find a solution for my wife to accept to use it !
I have created a launcher and it works perfectly well.

Comment on My On-line Identity by Silvana Seefeldt

Silvana Seefeldt — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 17:40:33 +0000

Now you’re making me jealous .

Comment on In The Beginning by Andrew A. Sailer

Andrew A. Sailer — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 23:22:48 +0000

This is great! Thanks for the article. I am new at development and this will be a big help.

Comment on My On-line Identity by Ruyk

Ruyk — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 10:39:35 +0000

Interesting theory about online-privacy. From a couple of years ago, I’ve been using something similar for myself. If you do a Google search on “Ruymán Reyes”, you’ll find my facebook, where I put most of my private stuff, and some links to presentations and two places: My linkedin and my tech blog. If you enter my tech blog, you’ll find my most common internet nickname, which is Ruyk. Usually I don’t use that nickname for online registrations, so its not easy to find me on the internet.
However, reading your post I’ve been concerned about the importance of an online privacy strategy, particularly while mixing personal and job information.
Thank you for sharing your toughs!

Comment on Split strings and join lists using Bash by jdevera

jdevera — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 08:35:40 +0000

Indeed, using tr is much simpler if your delimiter is only one character. By the time I wrote those functions I was obsessed with the idea of doing this without using the "\n" character, which I failed to do in myjoin. In fact, a more recent version of myjoin (that I still have to post here) uses neither "\n" nor the addslashesforsed helper function.

Comment on Split strings and join lists using Bash by Peeter Joot

Peeter Joot — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:40:36 +0000

if you aim is just to split $PATH, then the following less general solution is one that I often use:

echo $PATH | tr : ‘\n’

sometimes we have problematic network components in the $PATH at work … doing something like this, and then reversing it with

tr ‘\n’ :

can be very handy until machines come back to life.