Re: [mhvlug] Memory sticks

2008-01-05 Thread John Mort
I have two sticks, both PCI 133mhz, one is 128mb, the other is 256mb. I've been hanging onto them for an emergency, but the reality is my PC uses DDR RAM, and any PC I'm likely to acquire will also use more advanced RAM. On Jan 4, 2008 10:26 PM, Mark Wallace [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I hate to

Re: [mhvlug] Stupid growisofs won't cooperate

2008-01-05 Thread Jim Hartley
There is a file, /etc/yum.conf, where you put exclude=packagefoo* to tell yum not to mess with a particular package. I had to use it for OpenOffice so I could download the latest 2.3 version from the OOo website and not have yum keep trying to reload the fedora-customized earlier version; it

Re: [mhvlug] Bash scripting question

2008-01-05 Thread Mike Kershaw
On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 01:49:51PM -0500, John Mort wrote: I have a crontab script that pulls map files (a PNG) from an online game once a day, and stores them in a folder named after the date. Games are numbered from 33 to 70, in this way I can have a time stamp on the state of each game

[mhvlug] Bash scripting question

2008-01-05 Thread John Mort
I have a crontab script that pulls map files (a PNG) from an online game once a day, and stores them in a folder named after the date. Games are numbered from 33 to 70, in this way I can have a time stamp on the state of each game every day. I've been collecting this for several months, and would

Re: [mhvlug] Bash scripting question

2008-01-05 Thread Jim Hartley
I always use awk for this kind of thing, with a bash wrapper (usually piping the output of ls into the awk program). If you are interested I'll dig around and find something similar to this in my ~/bin directory. Jim Hartley John Mort wrote: I have a crontab script that pulls map files (a

Re: [mhvlug] Bash scripting question

2008-01-05 Thread Michael Muller,,,,
John Mort wrote: [snip] I was wondering if there was a way to do this so that it would instead call them day001.png, day002.png, day003.png, etc? I don't know yet Use the printf program: i=9; cp sourcefile.png $(printf 'day%02d.png' $i) Works just like C's printf only from the shell.

Re: [mhvlug] Bash scripting question

2008-01-05 Thread John Mort
On Jan 5, 2008 1:58 PM, Mike Kershaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 01:49:51PM -0500, John Mort wrote: I have a crontab script that pulls map files (a PNG) from an online game once a day, and stores them in a folder named after the date. Games are numbered from 33 to 70,