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Books have been written on the subject of awk and sed. Here’s a small sample of commands I put together over the years that are useful for everyday system administration tasks. Most of these tasks …

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Command-line backup methods

November 22, 2005 – 6:01 pm
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The following is a brief overview of standard Unix comman-line utilities used for data backup on Solaris systems. Most of the information below is also applicable to other unixoid systems.

Using FTP with pipes

November 19, 2005 – 10:37 pm
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All The Reasons Pot Is Good For You

AP/Damian Dovarganes
Colorado and Washington both passed legislation that legalizes the recreational use of marijuana on Tuesday.

While recreational marijuana is controversial, many people believe that the drug should be legal, especially …

Create TAR and pipe through gzip

November 19, 2005 – 10:36 pm
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A simple example of creating a gzip-compressed tar archive of the current directory.