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Set mtime with part of filename

karloskar — Tue, 08 May 2012 06:17:37 +0000

Needed to go through a directory of backuped files and set the mtime. The files had the format x-yymmdd.sql.gz A recent copying of the directory had removed the original mtime attributes (note to self: use rsync with -a flag next time).

This one liner did the trick of converting them back to what they had:

for f in *.sql.gz; do touch -d $(echo $f | \
sed "s/^\w\+-\([0-9]\{2\}\)\([0-9]\{2\}\)
\([0-9]\{2\}\).*/20\1-\2-\3/") $f; done

Could this be improved? Most certainly. I havent figured out how to do repetitions in a good manner in regex

MySQL round half even emulation

karloskar — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 13:17:16 +0000

I needed to emulate php’s PHP_ROUND_HALF_EVEN behaviour in mysql and did this:

SELECT IF(MOD(col,2)=1.5), FLOOR(col), ROUND(col))

Where col is a float value.

Edit: It seems as mysql’s ROUND() function does this per default. I should have read TFM.

Bring focus to Empathy in Unity

karloskar — Tue, 03 May 2011 07:40:00 +0000

Thanks to xdotool and this blog post I’ve managed to bring up an IM conversation with a simple key binding. Totally awesome!

tracd with upstart on Ubuntu

karloskar — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 12:10:41 +0000

After spending too many hours trying to get tracd running as a daemon on Ubuntu 10.04 I might as well share my experiences. At first I begun with some init.d scripts I found googling for tracd init.d. The problem with them was that they were made to run tracd as root which frankly didn’t feel that great. I tried to modify them to use the –user/–chuid options to no avail. In the end I understood that the problem was not those options but that the pid file I was trying to use with the tracd command for some reason couldn’t be written.

These mishaps wasn’t only bad as I therefor started fiddling with upstart. upstart is a much more pleasant experience than classical init scripts. All I had to do was to create the file

/etc/init/tracd.conf

and put

description "tracd server"
author "KO"

start on startup
stop on shutdown

expect daemon

script
        exec sudo -u www-data /usr/bin/tracd --daemonize --port=8000 \
	--hostname=127.0.0.1 -s /path/to/trac/project
end script

in it.

The key here was the expect daemon stanza which saved my day. After that you can use start|stop|status processname like:

sudo start tracd

Now you might wonder why I wanted to run tracd as a daemon. I was about to switch to nginx on the server running trac and the daemon way seemed the easiest.