Category Archives: Linux

Simple logging in Bash scripts

By goodmami | Published: 2011.07.04

I couldn’t find much mention of logging utilities for Linux shell scripting (namely Bash), so I wrote my own fairly quickly. I wanted several functions for various levels of logging (info, debug, warning, errors, etc), and a way to adjust what levels can be displayed. I followed the fairly standard convention of using numeric values [...]

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Lightweight Music

By goodmami | Published: 2011.03.05

I was getting tired of the bloat and memory usage of Rhythmbox, so I was searching for a new music player/manager. After trying Muine and Decibel and not being totally satisfied, I finally (re)found MPD, the Music Player Daemon. Once I figured out how to set it up (not too hard, but more work than [...]

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