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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? One liners, quick rant... Post 302977420 by Scrutinizer on Monday 18th of July 2016 03:50:17 AM

07-18-2016

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I think one-liners tend to have a bad rep for the wrong reasons.

One-liners are typically used for programming on the command line, where a single line is your real estate. They are very useful as one-off, terse and personal small scripts for an ad-hoc parsing result, for example for general information, problem determination or security forensics. Developing such a small script is usually a lot quicker than editing a file, exiting, running it, re-editing, etc... Typically sysadmins use one-liners a lot for this purpose.

Once a one liner is working and if it proves to be useful for multiple occasions, then it can be turned into a script in a file and then vertical real estate can be used and short names can be replaced by mnemonic names and comments can be added for maintainability and it can be made fool-proof with error conditions. In a script file one-liners are to be a avoided.

These are just two different types of application.

If a one-liner is posted here, it shows the principle or mechanism that can be used to tackle a problem or create an application. The user is free to use it and turn it into a fully maintainable script if he so chooses, or execute it as such on the command line and get his/her result..

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smpppd-c.conf

SMPPPD-C.CONF(5)						      SMPPPD							  SMPPPD-C.CONF(5)

NAME

       smpppd-c.conf - configuration file for smpppd frontends

DESCRIPTION

       When frontends of smpppd like cinternet , qinternet or kinternet want to connect the smpppd they may read the file /etc/smpppd-c.conf.

       The configuration file /etc/smpppd-c.conf has a simple file format with a key = value pair in each line.

OPTIONS

       sites = <list of sites>
	      Tell the frontends where to find the smpppd.  Frontends will try to connect to the smpppd in the order defined here.  Possible sites
	      are:

	      local  Connect to locally running smpppd (via socket in the local namespace).

	      gateway
		     Connect to smpppd running on the gateway.

	      config-file
		     Connect to smpppd as specified in this file.

	      slp    Connect to smpppd as retrived from the slp daemon (service location protocol).

       server = <server>
	      Specifies the host on which the smpppd is running.

       port = <port>
	      Specifies the port number of the smpppd.

       password = <password>
	      The password to use for authentication at the smpppd, UTF-8 encoded for those who really care.

SEE ALSO

       kinternet, qinternet, cinternet(1), smpppd(8).

AUTHOR

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