Spreadsheet calendar

A classic calendar made with OpenOffice Calc:
The cells with orange background are Italian holidays, and the background has been added manually (no formula); Easter is missing because its calculation would require a custom formula.

Posted by: Z24 | Sat, Apr 04 2009 | Category: /programming | Permanent link | home
Tagged as: programming, spreadsheet

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Regular expressions pattern options

In regular expressions there are some constructs that influence the way a pattern is matched:

• Non-greedy ?
• Non-capturing (?:pattern)
• Positive lookahead (?=pattern)
• Negative lookahead (?!pattern)
• Positive lookbehind (?<=pattern)
• Negative lookbehind (?<!pattern)
• Testing regular expressions

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Posted by: Z24 | Sat, Dec 22 2007 | Category: /programming | Permanent link | home
Tagged as: perl, programming, regex, visual basic

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Execute a command at shutdown

To dismount TrueCrypt volumes at shutdown and reboot time, I created a script, put it in/etc/init.d/ and symlinked it into the needed /etc/rc?.d/ directories using update-rc.d.
Here is the detail:

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Posted by: Z24 | Sun, Aug 27 2006 | Category: /linux | Permanent link | home
Tagged as: command-line, linux, programming, script, shell

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How to rename multiple files from bash

Rename all *html files to *test:

for x in `ls *html`; do mv $x `echo $x | sed -e "s/html/test/"`; done

Bash for:

for var in some-list ; do command ; done

Posted by: Z24 | Sun, Aug 27 2006 | Category: /linux | Permanent link | home
Tagged as: command-line, linux, programming, script, shell

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