The essence of success is that it is never necessary to think of a new idea oneself. It is far better to wait until somebody else does it, and then to copy him in every detail, except his mistakes.
–Aubrey Menen
Two quick things things I wanted to post. I have used rsync for along time for file backups but generally speaking rysnc is a spectacular tool for efficiently coping files. Not only does it only transfer the changes between a two files but, it also has a bunch of other useful features. One I need just recently, a copy command with a progress bar. So check this out:
rsync -v –progress
Yup, that is it. Simple, clean, efficient, and usable from any scripting interface.
The second thing I wanted to link was an article posted on the Linux Blog related to removing new lines characters from text files. The post mentions how to due this using tools like tr, awk, perl, sed, and C. Again, very handy for scripting on Unix systems.