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How to port an awk script to Python

opensource.com - Fri, 11/15/2019 - 16:02

Scripts are potent ways to solve a problem repeatedly, and awk is an excellent language for writing them. It excels at easy text processing in particular, and it can bring you through some complicated rewriting of config files or reformatting file names in a directory. 


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Hiring a technical writer in the age of DevOps

opensource.com - Fri, 11/15/2019 - 16:01

It's common for enterprises to leave the technical writer's role out of the DevOps discussion. Even the marketing department joins the discussion in some DevOps-first organizations—so why not the writers?


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PyRadio: An open source alternative for internet radio

opensource.com - Fri, 11/15/2019 - 16:00

PyRadio is a convenient, open source, command-line application for playing any radio station that has a streaming link. And in 2019, almost every radio station (certainly, every one that has a web presence) has a way to listen online. Using the free PyRadio program, you can add, edit, play and switch between your own selected list of streaming radio stations. It is a command-line tool for Linux that can run on many computers, including Macintosh and tiny computers like Raspberry Pi.


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Top 15 Best Security-Centric Linux Distributions of 2019

Tecmint - Fri, 11/15/2019 - 14:01
Being anonymous on the Internet is not particularly the same as surging the web safely, however, they both involve keeping oneself and one’s data private and away from the prying eyes of entities that...

PHP 7.4 Aims For Release In Two Weeks With FFI, Performance Improvements

Phoronix - Fri, 11/15/2019 - 05:19
The sixth and final release candidate of PHP 7.4 is now available with it being on track for the general availability release before month's end...

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