Installing Sphinx Search Engine on Mac OS X... or ld: library not found for -lmysqlclient
If you are trying to install Sphinx on Mac OS X, it will most likely fail. The current version of MySQL bundled with Mac OS X is not supported and therefore, it will spit out the error message because it can't find the correct libraries.
ld: library no...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Install Sphinx on Ubuntu
It's a pretty straightforward process. Download the source and compile it. There isn't a package for it so here are the commands.
wget http://sphinxsearch.com/downloads/sphinx-0.9.8.1.tar.gz
tar xzvf sphinx-0.9.8.1.tar.gz
cd sphinx-0.9.8.1/
./configure...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Recursively Zip a Directory and Files on Linux
It's Short and sweet!
Just remember that the finished zip filename is the first argument and the directory you wish to recursively zip comes after.
zip -r name_of_your_directory.zip name_of_your_directory
That's all.
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Written by Sean Behan on 03/05/2017
Quick Syntax to Pipe an SQL Query Directly to a file
Here is a quick way to put the contents of a database table into a simple text file. This could be handy if for example, you just want to grab some emails and pop the results into a simple csv file. Your sql statement can be as creative as sql allows. All...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Open Files in TextMate 2 with A Single Click
To open files with a single click from the file browser inside of TextMate 2 run this command from the terminal
defaults write com.macromates.TextMate.preview fileBrowserSingleClickToOpen -bool true
And to turn it off
defaults write com.macro...
Written by Sean Behan on 11/04/2013
