Did you know you can control your Porkbun-hosted DNS from a shell script? Here's an example of using the Porkbun API with curl to create a DNS record, and links to more things you can do with their full-featured and oddly satisfying API.
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In this tutorial, learn how to make your cron-driven shell scripts easier to manage by using a mother script. We'll show you how you'll never have to think about cleaning up temp files again!
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In the course of my career, I've periodically come across code like this in shell scripts: TEMP_FILE=/tmp/tempfile Or sometimes, slightly more elegantly: TEMPFILE=/tmp/tempfile.$$ The problems with th...
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