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2025-03-25

• 20:01 UTC (diff) (history) Comments on 2025-03-24 Speeding up operations on a remote server with reusing the ssh connection . . . . mbork – You're right – but the actual script I have is much longer and does many things. It also runs some commands on the server and uses their output to . . .

2025-03-24

• 19:56 UTC (new) (history) 2025-03-24 Speeding up operations on a remote server with reusing the ssh connection . . . . mbork – I have a script which performs several operations on some remote server, issuing a number of ssh commands

2025-03-17

• 07:36 UTC (new) (history) 2025-03-17 Bash script and passwords . . . . mbork – Some time ago I needed to write a script which had to ask the user for a password. After a short research it turned out that there are a few options.

2025-03-10

• 17:04 UTC (new) (history) 2025-03-10 Persisting variables across Emacs sessions revisited . . . . mbork – You really never know. My post about persisting Emacs variables was a short tip, written in literally a few minutes to give me a respite from writing and time to complete some longer posts which are underway. It is no mystery that some posts are long (and I hope good) articles, and some are just short texts I put out when I’m overwhelmed with work – and the post about persist was definitely in the latter category. While I still consider it a useful tip, I never expected to get serious feedback about it – and here it is.

2025-03-03

• 17:02 UTC (new) (history) 2025-03-03 Applying some modification to selected files in a directory . . . . mbork – Some time ago I had a rather specific need. I wanted to automatically modify a bunch of files in a directory, and I wanted to automate it as much as possible – but without writing any Elisp. Don’t get me wrong, I love coding in Elisp, but in that case I wanted a solution really quickly, faster than I could possibly code it.

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