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Showing return code in PS1
by Sven Vermeulen, post on Sun 31 August 2014

If you do daily management on Unix/Linux systems, then checking the return code of a command is something you'll do often. If you do SELinux development, you might not even notice that a command has failed without checking its return code, as policies might prevent the application from showing …

My application base: bash and kiss tools
by Sven Vermeulen, post on Thu 06 June 2013

Okay, this just had to be here. I'm an automation guy - partially because of my job in which I'm responsible for the long-term strategy behind batch, scheduling and workload automation, but also because I believe proper automation makes life just that much easier. And for personal work, why not automate …

Commandline SELinux policy helper functions
by Sven Vermeulen, post on Sat 18 May 2013

To work on SELinux policies, I use a couple of functions that I can call on the shell (command line): seshowif, sefindif, seshowdef and sefinddef. The idea behind the methods is that I want to search (find) for an interface (if) or definition (def) that contains a particular method or …