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SQL Injection in Bash Scripts
Problem
When working on making a small application with a Zenity GUI, I ask the user for input. I need to somehow sanitize this input, or I will leave the gates wide open for two problems:
In this blog post, I’m going to look at a solution for the first problem.
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Skipping or Selectively Running Tests With Maven
You might not always want to execute all tests. Sometimes you only want to run a single unit test, or only integrations tests that start with
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Grokking Time Zones in Oracle's DATE and TIMESTAMP
This post talks a little bit about
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Oracle Sqlplus Cheat Sheet
In this post, I’m going to aggregate all those Oracle commands that I can never remember but are very useful to have somewhere written down.
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Mariadb/Mysql Password Exposure in Bash
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Whats the Difference Between a Login and a Non-Login Shell?
I always kind of knew there was a difference between login and non-login shells, but when I couldn’t explain the difference properly to a coworker, I knew I needed to spend some time on figuring it out.
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Encrypt Device With Veracrypt From the Command Line
You have a drive that you want to encrypt and use in Linux and other OSes. Then Veracrypt, the successor of Truecrypt, is a good choice. In this tutorial, I will show you how to quickly encrypt a drive and mount and unmount it from the command line.
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Make Less Options Permanent or the Missing Lessrc
Let’s have a look at how we can make certain
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Make a Backup With Rsync
We want to make a backup of data, for example to an external hard drive. Rsync to the rescue.
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Partition and Format Drive With NTFS
Say we bought an external hard drive to back up some stuff from a crashed computer. We can use a Live USB to get at the data and put the data on the external hard drive. Because the data needs to be accessible by Windows, we are going to use format the drive with NTFS.
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