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Although Picasa is now available on GNU/Linux, it is still proprietary and, as such, unethical. One year ago, I wrote a simple Bash script that handles a very rapid download of entire PicasaWeb albums/galleries. During the last weeks, Google changed twice the format of the related Web pages and my script could not fetch any picture.
There are different ways to take Backup from MongoDB. Using mongodump is one of simple and efficient way to implement it. The bash script presented here take backup from replica set after verifying that current server is slave and then transfer it to separate backup server along with capturing vital information of all steps in log file.
Google restricts the download of entire PicasaWeb albums to users of its proprietary (and Windows only) software Picasa. A fairly simple Bash script can do that and even more.
The Bash Debugger Project (bashdb) lets you set breakpoints, inspect variables, perform a backtrace, and step through a bash script line by line. In other words, it provides the features you expect in a C/C++ debugger to anyone programming a bash script.
Many computer users realize how invaluable a backup scheme can be and most linux distros already include the required software for a simple backup scheme. I am going to show you how to write a simple bash script that will archive specified files in your home directory and add the date/time to the filename of the archive.
How to use a Bash Shell script to record the activity of users. This
script is useful in rebuilding the actions of users as they work at
the command line.
What if we could use a bash script to use "apt-get" with Axel (a command line application which accelerates HTTP/FTP downloads by using multiple sources for one file) so the "apt-get" download speed would increase dramatically? Well, you can, thanks to Matt Parnell who has created a bash script which does just that.
The positions of variables in a Bash Shell script may be used by the script as a reference. These built-in parameters are useful methods for building scripts.