Erlang Tinkering

ABOUT ERLANG Erlang (/ˈɜːrlæŋ/ UR-lang) is a general-purpose, concurrent, functional programming language, as well as a garbage-collected runtime system. The term Erlang is used interchangeably with Erlang/OTP, or OTP, which consists of the Erlang runtime system, a number of ready-to-use components mainly written in Erlang, and a set of design principles for Erlang programs.[3] The …

Testing For File Charactereristics

commandline session $cat test.sh #!/usr/bin/env bash # cookbook filename: checkfile # DIRPLACE=/tmp INFILE=/home/jeffrin/amazing.data OUTFILE=/home/jeffrin/more.results if [ -d “$DIRPLACE” ] then cd $DIRPLACE if [ -e “$INFILE” ] then if [ -w “$OUTFILE” ] then doscience > “$OUTFILE” else echo “can not write to $OUTFILE” fi else echo “can not read from $INFILE” fi else echo …

Bash . Running Several Commands All at Once

commandline session $ls src war $cd & ls & [1] 2587 [2] 2588 $src war [1]- Done cd [2]+ Done ls –color=auto $pwd /home/jeffrin/beautiful-work $ $cd & ls & cd & [1] 2590 [2] 2591 [3] 2592 $src war [1] Done cd [2]- Done ls –color=auto [3]+ Done cd $pwd /home/jeffrin/beautiful-work $cd .. & pwd …

Basic tinkering with “set” command and “noclobber” related

commandline session [bash light=”true”] $echo improve > clean.txt $cat clean.txt improve $set -o noclobber $echo new > clean.txt bash: clean.txt: cannot overwrite existing file $echo new >> clean.txt $cat clean.txt improve new $echo again >| clean.txt $cat clean.txt again $set +o noclobber $echo improve > clean.txt $cat clean.txt improve $ [/bash]