14 July 2011
Install a single file from a package without installing the RPM
You don’t need to install an RPM package just to get to the files. This can be especially useful if you’re looking for the default configuration files or docs from a package. You may have the package already installed and don’t want to reinstall it. It’s not pretty, and I wish rpm and yum provided a prettier method of extracting a file, but it works.
20 October 2009
Tail a file in Python
Tail a file in Python
def tail( f, window=20 ):
f.seek( 0, 2 )
bytes= f.tell()
size= window
block= -1
while size > 0 and bytes+block*1024 > 0:
…
9 October 2009
Python script to cut some lines from the top a file
Hmm… I changed it to cut from the top and bottom:
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