Display the output of a command from the first line until the first instance of a regular expression.

2010-01-04 0 min read Bash Linux
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| perl -n -e 'print "$_" if 1 … /«a class="zem_slink freebase/en/regular_expression" title="Regular expression" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expression">regex>/;# This <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/command_line_interface" title="Command-line interface" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command-line_interface">command line will display the output of , from the first line of output, until the first time it sees a <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/pattern_matching" title="Pattern matching" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pattern_matching">pattern matching .

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EncFS – Simple article to use Encrypted filesystem in Linux

2009-12-24 3 min read Linux

A nice article here

EncFS is an easy-to-use, command-line tool for storing information in encrypted form. It’s not really a file-system, but it pretends to be one at the CLI. If you’ve been searching for a means of encrypting and decrypting your sensitive data easily, here it is.
User Level: Intermediate
EncFS is included with the distribution I’m using on the desktop, Ubuntu Dapper, so all I needed to do to install it was a few clicks in Synaptic. Look for the encfs package, and select if for installation. It should pull down all of the dependencies for the system. If you’re not so lucky, and your distro doesn’t include EncFS packages, you can download the latest tarball from a here and build it from the source. See the EncFS site for a dependencies.

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