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Recent Posts
14 Sep 2022
In recent versions of bash, the ** expression can be used to indicate matches for a particular directory while including sub-directories. This can be a big help when dealing with some messy filesystem structures.
shopt -s globstar
data/$year/**/*.nc
This example would match .nc files in $year and the folders below $year. Depending on the shell configuration or if running within a script, shopt -s globstar may be necessary to enable the capability.
13 Sep 2022
Out of the blue a problem resolving common domains popped up while I was using a WSL Linux image.
Some internet searching led me to this:
https://gist.github.com/coltenkrauter/608cfe02319ce60facd76373249b8ca6
The Github gist and the comments had me scared, but poking around in the Linux system running under WSL indicated that /etc/resolv.conf was symlinked to some non-existing file. This was probably something that WSL is doing under the hood based on its own configuration judging by the link.
9 Sep 2022
What’s hugo and why am I switching from jekyll?
https://gohugo.io/ #
The world’s fastest framework for building websites
Hugo is one of the most popular open-source static site generators. With its amazing speed and flexibility, Hugo makes building websites fun again.
Automatic content formatting and views based on rules #
This is really what shines about Hugo–content driven presentation and views into site contents treating everything as data that just needs to be formatted.