Locating someone on the web is not only a matter of google search.
There are many websites with huge records of people which are not indexed in google. They either don't allow this or their databases are browsable only by POST requests.
If you want to search automatically, there are search engines specialized in this such as: pipl.com and nameslocator.com. In many cases you'll find more with these than with google.
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Find people in the deep web
Monday, April 19, 2010
DOS/Windows End of Line vs Linux EOLN
Working with bash scripts on some text files can be really annoying. Everything seems perfect but you just can't get the desired results.
One common reason for this is the incompatibility of the end of line markers between different operating systems. On Windows there are two characters: '\r\n' and on Linux only one: '\n'. And that extra '\r' can really mess your terminal and your echo outputs. On the other hand, taking a Linux file on a Windows notepad, will display everything on the same line. But don't worry, this can be fixed. If you are on Windows, instead of Notepad try Wordpad or Word and this will eventually display your file correctly.
On Linux, first you should check your file to see what you deal with. You can use hexdump or mc(midnight commander - mcedit).
$ hexdump dos_test.txt -C
[...] 6f 77 73 20 73 74 79 6c |DOS/Windows styl|
[...] 20 4c 69 6e 65 0d 0a |e End Of Line..|
$ hexdump lin_test.txt -C
[...] 75 78 20 73 74 79 6c 65 |Unix/Linux style|
[...] 20 45 4f 4c 4e 0a | EOLN.|
On the first file we have 0d 0a sequence and on the second line only 0a.
To avoid headaches when you use a Windows file with some bash scripts or something similar you need to convert it.
You can use tr:
$ tr -d '\r' inputfile.txt > outputfile.txt
or
$ dos2unix dosfile.txt unixfile.txt
You can also use AWK, PHP, SED to convert files, even ftp.