Netsearching found three options for Ruby to parse configuration files:

• YAML is powerful but I felt the the configuration file format was too complex for end-users. YAML example.
• drks' ParseConfig was not powerful enough for my needs.
• Hans' parse_config was also not powerful enough for my needs.

So I rolled my own and offer it here for community use. I was delaying publishing because it is not finished (there are TODOs in the code) but it works well enough and may never be finished so better...

Xapian's Omega component is primarily used as tool for building interactive text searching solutions but can be used directly.

When using it directly, a typical URL is http://<host_ID>/cgi-bin/omega. That results in omega running with its default CGI parameters. The default CGI parameters can be over-ridden by specifying them on the URL, for example http://<host_ID>/cgi-bin/omega?DB=<index_ID>&FMT=<template_ID>.

There are two problems...

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I couldn't find one to suit anywhere so wrote this.

It is not really needed during shutdown because all it does is send SIGTERM to all the rsync server processes and the Linux shutdown process does that anyway. rsync server processes are well behaved and do terminate quickly in response to SIGTERM so there's no need to check that the processes have terminated and escalate to SIGKILL (which the Linux shutdown process does anyway).

It is hardly...

In case anybody is looking for one (I was and could not find one anywhere), the attachments are terminal icons with a hash (#) character.

This is not my area of expertise so improvement suggestions are welcome. Is PNG the best format for icons? Is 48x48 a good size choice?

In case anyone is curious how it was made, Terminal.svg was copied and loaded in Gimp. Most of the shading was removed (plain black background is more distinct at small display sizes such as in...

This technique was developed to generate a timestamp string for rsync's --backup-dir option but it could be generally useful.

The first issue is that the value of %DATE% depends on Windows' regional settings so is not portable. The same goes for the output format of cmd.exe's builtin command date. (one example of many discussions: this StackOverflow thread). There is no way to program around this in a .BAT or .CMD script. The chosen solution was to UnxUtils' date.exe which is a...