Github allows users or systems to access their API via OAuth2. Although this mechanism is often used on the public internet for authentication of users into a 3rd party site, note that OIDC is not implemented. In this article, I will show how to use the Spotify Dashboard to configure an Application that can support … OAuth2: Configuring Github for OAuth2
If the logic in your Bash script needs to force the last exit code variable “$?”, you can accomplish that with an exit inside a subprocess. For example, here is a script snippet. $(exit 99) echo “last process exit code was $?” This would return the output below. last process exit code was 99 This … Bash: forcing the process exit code using a subshell
WireGuard aims to be the successor to IPsec and more performant than OpenVPN. It is a general purpose VPN that is secure enough for servers, yet light enough to run on embedded devices. In a previous article I described the installation of a WireGuard server with a Windows VPN client. I will extend those instructions … Ubuntu: WireGuard VPN for Ubuntu server, with an iPhone client
curl has a “write-out” ability to display information after a completed transfer that can be used to support Bash scripting. In it’s simplest form, a curl request looks like this: page=”https://www.google.com” curl $page But this leaves a lot to be desired in a scripting scenario: curl does not exit with a non-zero code on failure, … Bash: Capturing HTTP status code using curl write-out
awk is a powerful utility for text processing, but the command itself is surrounded by single quotes and unfortunately does not allow you to escape single quotes within the output. To workaround this, you can represent the single quote as its hexidecimal escape code “\x27”. $ echo -e “name=Ben\nname=Jerry” | awk -F’=’ ‘{ printf(“insert into … Linux: Outputting single quotes in awk output