Greg's Wiki

This is Greg's (also known as GreyCat's) wiki. It has some pages of interest to people doing Unix shell scripting or system administration. The official front page URLs are https://mywiki.wooledge.org/ or http://mywiki.wooledge.org/ .

• BashFAQ is the 'official' channel FAQ for libera's #bash IRC channel.

• For common mistakes made by Bash programmers, see BashPitfalls.

• For learning Bash, try the BashGuide.

• For a quick reference, use BashSheet.

• For more advanced shell topics, see BashProgramming.

• For general Unix issues, try some of the pages in CategoryUnix.

• qmail users, see CategoryQmail.

• ssh users, try CategorySsh.

• Miscellaneous pages: NetEtiquette, XyProblem. There are also some rants.

Dear editors - licensing of user-contributed Wooledge content

Some wishing to use material published on this wiki have expressed concern over its lack of copyright licensing from contributors. If you are a frequent or past contributor to greycat's wiki, it would be very helpful if you would please license your work, by creating a user page and including a notice to indicate your willingness to permit reuse of contributions by others. We recommend either CC zero or CC-BY, as these are standard, widely-recognized and flexible licenses for sharing general wiki material. But really any license is better than none, so please choose one and post!

If you are unwilling or unable to share, a user page explicitly stating such is still helpful.

Questions / comments => ormaaj

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The Debian wiki has some more resources that may be useful.

This is a MoinMoin wiki. Language packages have been installed for English, French, German and Spanish, but virtually all the content is in English.

As of April 2014, this wiki runs on a Debian virtual private server with nginx and uWSGI. In December 2012, this wiki was moved to the same Debian virtual private server with Apache2 and mod_wsgi. Prior to that, it ran on an OpenBSD box with a very slow Internet connection, using CherryPy with Apache rewriting magic to help out. Prior to that, it ran on the same box using the "twisted" package (instructions for that no longer exist!), with a simpler Apache reverse proxy pointing to it.

Generic wiki stuff

• RecentChanges: see where people are currently working

• CategoryCategory: pages organized by topics

• WikiSandBox: feel free to change this page and experiment with editing

• FindPage: search or browse the database in various ways

• HelpOnEditing, HelpOnMoinWikiSyntax: quick access to wiki syntax

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• Edit any page by clicking Edit(Text) at the top or the bottom of the page

• Create a link to another page with joined capitalized words (like WikiSandBox) or with [[words in double square brackets]]

• Search for page titles or text within pages using the search box at the top of any page

• See HelpForBeginners to get you going, HelpContents for all help pages.

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