I've created a script that runs every night on my Linux server that uses mysqldump to back up each of my MySQL databases to .sql files and packages them together as a compressed .tar file. The next step I want to accomplish is to send that tar file through email to a remote email server for safek...

If I want to create a URL using a variable I have two choices to encode the string. urlencode() and rawurlencode() . 11 ...

I have a code base which I want to push to GitHub as open source. In this git-controlled source tree, I have certain configuration files which contain passwords. I made sure not to track this file and I also added it to the .gitignore file. However, I want to be absolutely positive that no sensiti...

I want to check if a string is in a text file. If it is, do X. If it's not, do Y. However, this code always returns True for some reason. Can anyone see what is wrong? ...

I am writing an application (Django, it so happens) and I just want an idea of what actually a "CSRF token" is and how it protects the data. Is the post data not safe if you do not use CSRF tokens? ...

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How can I configure git log to show commit date instead of author date ? 3 Answers ...

I am trying to customize the format for git log . I want all commits to be shown in one line. Each line should only show the first line of the commit message. I found out that git log --pretty=short should do the trick but on my computer it shows the full log as git log does (besides the ti...

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