Recently I’ve had a little problem. I’ve needed to create an archive from some source directories but I’ve not needed to add in the archive some subdirectorives. I’ve made a quick search in Google and found an article “Telling tar Which Files to Exclude or Include”. Here is a short example: $ find videoguide/ ! -type d -print | egrep ‘/,|%$|~$|.jpg$|.gif$|.png$’ > /tmp/exclude_files That command […]
POP3 web interface
mail_reader.pl is a simple Perl script which implement a web interface to the POP3 mail box. It allows to see a list of messages and delete all of them. Put that script into your CGI-bin directory, make it executable and see your mail box.
PostgreSQL 8.0.0 Released
The PostgreSQL Global Development Group has announced the release of version 8.0.0 of the PostgreSQL ORDBMS. Changes: – Native Windows port – Savepoints/nested transactions – Exception handling inside functions – Tablespaces – Point in time recovery – Improved shared buffer management – Background writer process to reduce checkpoint impact – Tunable delays to reduce the impact of VACUUM – Overhaul of pg_dump and pg_restore – […]