evvsubst – substitute variables in text in shell

2015-07-09 1 min read Fedora Linux

First you need to install gettext, which by the way might be already installed, however you can install with

dnf install gettext

Details of the package:

Name        : gettext
Arch        : x86_64
Epoch       : 0
Version     : 0.19.4
Release     : 4.fc22
Size        : 4.6 M
Repo        : @System
Summary     : GNU libraries and utilities for producing multi-lingual messages
URL         : http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/
License     : GPLv3+ and LGPLv2+
Description : The GNU gettext package provides a set of tools and documentation for
producing multi-lingual messages in programs. Tools include a set of
conventions about how programs should be written to support message
catalogs, a directory and file naming organization for the message
catalogs, a runtime library which supports the retrieval of translated
messages, and stand-alone programs for handling the translatable and
the already translated strings. Gettext provides an easy to use
library and tools for creating, using, and modifying natural language
catalogs and is a powerful and simple method for internationalizing
programs.

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Checking the links to your site (from affiliates) using cron and bash script.

2010-05-27 2 min read Fedora Learning Linux Uncategorized

If you have some affiliate links and are concerned about their presence then you can setup <a class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f80000000045c9c5b" title="Cron" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cron">cron to check the links for you regularly. For this you need a very simple script (as below) and a cron entry (example further down).

#!/bin/bash –
#===============================================================================

#          FILE:  checklinks.sh

#         USAGE:  ./checklinks.sh

#   DESCRIPTION:  Check if the links exists on affiliate sites

#       OPTIONS:  —
#  REQUIREMENTS:  —
#          BUGS:  —
#         NOTES:  —
#        AUTHOR:  <a class="zem_slink" title="Amit Agarwal" rel="homepage" href="http://amit-agarwal.co.in">Amit Agarwal (AKA), amit.agarwal@amit-agarwal.co.in
#       COMPANY:  Individual
#       VERSION:  1.0
#       CREATED:  04/07/2010 08:19:29 AM IST
#      REVISION:  —
#===============================================================================

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