Generally, if I have 100 files that I need to edit and make changes in, I tend to write a perl or python script to make them (if I have 3 files, I just open them in VIM and make them manually!) Yesterday however, a colleague who doesn't code had to change 2 consecutive lines in about 400 similar files and wanted a …

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Is there anybody in the IT industry that wasn't doing something with openssl in April? I don't use the openssl command line utility that often, but last week it reminded me that openssl command line tool is pretty comprehensive and has some nice features. I thought on this occasion I'd record the most useful ones so …

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Different ways to mirror a remote directory: 1wget -r --no-parent http://server/location If there are any files you don't want you can add the --reject option: < 1wget -r --no-parent --reject="tmp*" http://server/location 1curl

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