Grep pattern for the day: (.*)r(.*)r(.*), ([A-Z]*) ([0-9]*(-[0-9]*)?)r(P: (.*)r)?(F: (.*)r)?((.*@.*)r)?((www.*)r)? This will take a list in the form of: Company Name Address City, State ZIP P: 123-123-1234 F: 123-123-1234 email@example.com www.example.com where the phone, fax, email and website are all optional and allow you to then reorder into a nice CSV format with a replace:…

This will upload the new files using SSH from the current directory and synchronize with the remote directory public_html on HOST, pushing only the new or changed files. rsync -rvC –rsh=”ssh -l SSH_USERNAME” * HOST:public_html/ mmmm, tasty rsync. my new best friend. even better than scp, I think. From man rsync: -C, –cvs-exclude This is…

I was working on a project and needed to combine a Real Player clip together with a Windows Media Player clip into a new WMV file. I was able to use the following software (all free to download and use) to tackle each part. 1) To convert Real Player video to AVI format: Real7ime Converter…