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Archive of posts filed under the tips category.

Policy routing, multihoming and all that jazz

It's simple, but every time I need to look it up

OpenVPN LDAP authentication

Authenticate VPN users against LDAP

Text replacement in context/out of context

An added twist to the usual search/replace problems.

Look for multiple patterns in files

One of the most FAQ of all times.

Remove duplicates, but keeping only the last occurrence

Again on IRC, somebody asked how to remove duplicates from a file, but keeping only the last occurrence of each item. The classic awk idiom awk '!a[$0]++' prints only the first instance of every line. So if the input is, for example foo bar baz foo xxx yyy bar the "normal" output (ie using the […]