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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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CUPS printing on Solaris 10

February 28, 2006 – 12:08 pm
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Generating complex SQL queries with shell scripts

February 21, 2006 – 9:08 am
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It is sometimes necessary to use complex select and insert queries with dozens of variables. Writing such queries by hand is a tedious process and the chance of making a mistake is high. A few …

NFS-mount “Permission denied” error

February 16, 2006 – 11:27 am
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NFS is a relatively uncomplicated functionality of any Unix system. However, from time to time you are bound to run in the “permission denied” error while trying to NFS-mount a filesystem. Everything seems to be …

Protected: Notes on Electronic Security

February 7, 2006 – 12:05 pm

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Wget Google image collector

February 1, 2006 – 1:07 pm
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Google Images is an extremely useful tool for webmasters, designers, editors, and just about anybody else who’s in a hurry to find just the right photo or clipart. However, this Google tool has a couple …