javier arturo rodríguez

Easy. Portable. Buzzword-compliant. Ingenuous. Elegant. Right-out wicked cool: Bourne Shell Server Pages. As I write this I’m looking for a excuse to use this revolutionary technology in my next project!
Behold the simplicity of ASP and the power of sh:

Interface21: please take note. I expect a Spring.sh implementation before the year ends. ;-)

A couple of years ago Ludovico Magnocavallo tackled the issue of bulk conversion of MySQL tables from MyISAM to InnoDB with an elegant bash snippet.

The original post also suggests using grep to limit the scope of the conversion to just a few tables.
(It seems that now Google *does* yield practical answers to this question ;-)

This code stnippet grabs a .CSV file from Yahoo! Finance with selected quotes. This is very useful to keep an eye in your portfolio from within OpenOffice.org Calc, Gnumeric, Kspread,Microsoft Excel or similar program using your very own models.
To use it edit the paths and the symbols in the script, run it periodically from cron(8) to get $DEST/quotes.csv, import the file once and reference it from your own spreadsheet.