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Personal software engineering blog where I share a variety of topics that interest me.

Sunday, May 24, 2026

MPlayer Speed Up Playback w/Audio Adjustment

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Today's video and podcast players have a very useful feature that allows playing back the video/audio at an increased playback speed.  H...
Sunday, May 10, 2026

Create a Bootable USB stick

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For decades, Linux installations was done using CDs, later DVDs.  As the installation sizes increased and the popularity of CD/DVDs dropped ...
Wednesday, May 6, 2026

Chaining Find Commands

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For the better part of my career I used 'find' incorrectly, or at the very least very naively.  The '-exec' trickery elude...
Sunday, May 3, 2026

Chaining Find Exec Commands for Quick Data Analysis

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 Quick review of basic find command before getting to the content. $ find . -name "*.txt" -exec grep -l dog {} \; Executing comman...
Sunday, April 26, 2026

Conditional Subsequent Command Calls

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  Occasionally there is a need in bash scripting to execute a series of commands in sequence conditionally.  Command2 needs to be run afte...
Sunday, April 19, 2026

Read-Only Variables in Bash

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  Bash has a little known concept of read-only variables.  When specifying 'readonly' during a variable assignment prevents the va...
Sunday, April 12, 2026

Detect Command Timeouts using Bash

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 A common, and often overlooked, need for scripting is addressing hanging, or unresponsive commands.  What should your script do if one of i...
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