This article is now published on my website: Prefer Subshells for Context.
Erik Michaelson borkxs
datagrok
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Virtualenv's `bin/activate` is Doing It Wrong
bmaeser
/ subtitle-extract.txt
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September 2, 2011 23:25
extract subtitles from *.mkv-files on osx
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| lines with $ are commands | |
| ### install mkvtoolnix: | |
| $ brew install mkvtoolnix | |
| ### list content of the mkv-file: | |
| $ mkvmerge -i mymoviefile.mkv | |
| ### what will give you: |
isaacs
/ node-and-npm-in-30-seconds.sh
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Use one of these techniques to install node and npm without having to sudo. Discussed in more detail at http://joyeur.com/2010/12/10/installing-node-and-npm/ Note: npm >=0.3 is *safer* when using sudo.
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| echo 'export PATH=$HOME/local/bin:$PATH' >> ~/.bashrc | |
| . ~/.bashrc | |
| mkdir ~/local | |
| mkdir ~/node-latest-install | |
| cd ~/node-latest-install | |
| curl http://nodejs.org/dist/node-latest.tar.gz | tar xz --strip-components=1 | |
| ./configure --prefix=~/local | |
| make install # ok, fine, this step probably takes more than 30 seconds... | |
| curl https://www.npmjs.org/install.sh | sh |
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