All Entries On Perl

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• Install CPAN modules only if not yet present (2011-06-16 - Geert Vandeweyer)
  

  I needed a way to check if a certain CPAN module is present on the system/path, before installing the module again. This way I wanted to prevent that newer versions of mdoles were installed by an i...

• commandline timer with osd_cat output (2011-07-19 - Geert Vandeweyer)
  

  This simple timer script is executed from the commandline and takes two inputs. First a timer name, second a time indication in hours and/or minutes. 

  It sends output to the screen usi...

• Converting EndNote to BibTex (2011-09-01 - Geert Vandeweyer)
  

   

  Converting end note references to bibtex is a pain. However, some steps can be automized to make it a least bearable. The steps below are no guarantee the result will be perfect, but ...

• Perl: next character in alphabet (2011-10-17 - Geert Vandeweyer)
  

  The following snippet gets the next letter in the alphabet given the input character. Replace the alpha-string with uppercase or any other sequence of characters if needed. 

  # do...

• Batch Paired-End File Interlacer (2012-07-18 - Geert Vandeweyer)
  

  Creating Interlaced Paired-end data

  Galaxy is a great platform to analyze next-generation sequencing data in non-cli manner. Currently, it has a few major drawbacks. One of those is the in...

• Batch Workflow starting using the Galaxy API : Practical Example (2012-11-02 - Geert Vandeweyer)
  

  Galaxy is a very powerfull interface to the analysis of Next-Generation-Sequencing data. On the other hand, it has some drawbacks. On of the major ones is the inability (for now) to run workflows o...

• Enable LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE on Ubuntu 12.04 (2013-01-30 - Geert Vandeweyer)
  

  On my ubuntu 12.04 LTS server, I noticed that I could not run the following mysql command anymore: 

  LOAD DATA LOCAL IN...

• Bash oneliner: Sum Disk Usage for files based on age (2014-06-13 - Geert Vandeweyer)
  

  Command of the day : Get a recursive disk usage for files older than a specified age. 

   

   

  find . ...

• Retrieve large batches of rows from mysql (2014-10-28 - Geert Vandeweyer)
  

  The following snippits are some approaches for rapid high performance fetching of vast amounts of rows from a mysql database. All of them should reduce the load on the mysql server and increase the...

• warning setting locale failed (2016-03-31 - Geert Vandeweyer)
  

  The following two commands fix the messages upon ssh-login to remote hosts regarding missing locale variables.

   

  The Errors: 

• Recovery of corrupt XFS partition. (2016-05-10 - Geert Vandeweyer)
  

  We had a large XFS partition that went corrupt after a memory hardware failure. Containing 45Tb of data and no backups, we were eager to retrieve the data in some way. 

   

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• Automate CPAN module installations (2016-12-06 - Geert Vandeweyer)
  

  1. Problem

  • You have an installation script that needs to install several cpan modules
  • You don\'t want to stick around to wait for user input : [yes] 
  • Save Spotify to flac or mp3 (2018-07-14 - Geert Vandeweyer)
    

    Disclaimer

    I like spotify. That\'s why I have a paid subscription. I also like music in general, as do my kids. That\'s why I have a \"

  • Parallel mysql myisam repair (2018-11-21 - Geert Vandeweyer)
    

    Small script to run the check & repair commands on database server in parallel, to speed up recovery and restart.