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(Bash) sendmail without writing a file

Tue, 21 Sep 2010 00:22:32 GMT

Usually you see sendmail invoked with `sendmail me@example.com < file.txt` What if you're scripting, and don't feel like writing a temp file for every email message?

(Ruby) Howto set up a Rake task to run Cucumber features and generate reports

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:41:45 GMT

Note that Rake is slower than just running `cucumber`

(Ruby) Howto set up a Rake task to update installed gems and gem sources

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:26:09 GMT

Rails has a task like this, but I couldn't locate it, and it wasn't hard to write my own, and mine worked too :|

(DOS Batch) Print Date/Time in DOS Batch File

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:17:34 GMT

The code below shows how to format date and time stamps in DOS batch files. This is very useful if you are creating a log file, or any file that should have a unique file name. If you run the batch file below it should print something like the following output: Today's date is 2009_10_21 The local time is 14_25_01 Date and time: 2009_10_21_14_25_01

(DOS Batch) Special variables in Windows Batch files

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 11:32:36 GMT

Below are the `.bat` file variables that come in handy most often for me. [This MS article has more information on batch files](http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/percent.mspx?mfr=true) including a **table of more special variables,** including `%~$PATH:1`, which > "Searches the directories listed in the PATH environment variable and > expands %1 to the fully qualified name of the first one found."

(Ruby) How to find the path to the script that is currently executing

Fri, 09 Jan 2009 09:12:14 GMT

I just realized this kind of regex operation is done with slice in Ruby. In Perl that would be print 'path/to/file' =~ m{(.*/)};

(Perl) Examine CSS selectors in JSP files and report on whether they match some patterns

Tue, 03 Jul 2007 21:27:59 GMT

Processe a directory of JSP source files, looks for regex matches, and reports on the number and location of matches. For detecting deprecated attributes in XHTML. Uses Mail::Outlook to send an email. Requires you to click "ok" each time a notification is sent, but gets around firewalls.