Monthly Archives: April 2013

How to install the VirtualBox Extension Pack from the Command Line on Ubuntu

Posted on April 21, 2013 by SoCRaT

The following command was needed after upgrading the VirtualBox version to install the new version of the extension pack and replace the old one: sudo VBoxManage extpack install –replace Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-4.2.12-84980.vbox-extpack

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How to manually install a Gnome Shell extension

Posted on April 14, 2013 by SoCRaT

This is a must-know for those who love some old extensions that are no longer compatible with their new upgrade of gnome shell, since many extensions are already compatible with the new versions of the gnome-shell, but all what differs … Continue reading →

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How to extract a number from a string (not a file) in Bash

Posted on April 10, 2013 by SoCRaT

export hobba=ksjdjf123ksks export nokka=`sed “s/[^0-9]//g” <<< $hobba` echo $nokka 123 Sources: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13055889/sed-with-a-literal-string-not-input-file, http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6388046/extract-integer-from-string-using-bash

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How to debug your bash script

Posted on April 7, 2013 by SoCRaT

Simply supply the -x parameter, e.g. bash -x myscript.sh

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