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How to Use the Ls Command on Linux or Mac OS X to Sort Files based on Second in the Timestamp
Here is the one liner. ls -lhtTr It will output something like total 24152 -rw-rw-r-- 1 sean staff 1.0M May 4 14:31:42 2019 4c2caf52cb084ea39a6a65a0e68ee382 -rw-rw-r-- 1 sean staff 1.0M May 4 14:31:44 2019 76eeeea5d...
Written by Sean Behan on 05/04/2019
Simple SQL for Counting New Signups
Here is a little snippet that will return new signups (or new records) for today select id, email, created_at::date date from signups where email not in (select distinct email from signups where created_at < current_date)
Written by Sean Behan on 07/13/2017
XPath with HTML in PHP One Liner
Here is a one liner for using XPATH with HTML in PHP $doc = new DOMXPath(@DOMDocument::loadHTML(file_get_contents("https://www.reddit.com/r/PHP/"))); Now you can use XPATH to query the html.. foreach($doc->query("//a") as $el){ echo $el->no...
Written by Sean Behan on 11/14/2017
Using Selenium to Drive Firefox Browser for Web Automation
There are a lot of practical uses for automating user behavior in a browser. Everything from testing your web application to logging into Twitter and auto following people. But first you have to install the tools. Here is everything you need to run yo...
Written by Sean Behan on 03/09/2017
Mod_Python and Web.py on Ubuntu
Download First install mod_python for Apache and then restart/reload the server. apt-get install libapache2-mod-python /etc/init.d/apache2 force-reload apache2ctl restart Next grab the web.py framework from webpy.org. You can grab the tar or use easy_in...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012