![8vl3onvznkopxa6ny9995yrc4gw[1]](https://i0.wp.com/www.krazyworks.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/8vl3onvznkopxa6ny9995yrc4gw1-175x150.jpg "Awk & sed Snippets for SysAdmins")
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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When you look at the CPU activity of your computer, one of the parameters is the iowait. This value shows how much time your CPU wastes while it is waiting for I/O operations for complete. …
Xbox 360 uses UPnP protocol to stream multimedia files from computers on your home network. Normally, you would have a Windows PC running WMP and sharing files. But what if you have a Linux box …
![wyryr1sn52gntzn65v4fpz5lc6v[1]](https://i2.wp.com/www.krazyworks.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/wyryr1sn52gntzn65v4fpz5lc6v1-80x80.jpg "Plundering Facebook Photo Albums")
Let’s imagine you need to download all the photos in a Facebook photo album. It can be a public album, a friend’s, or even your own. Sure, you can do this manually, but you probably …
![clfud46mxf2t5zph2l04zlpgl1d[1]](https://i2.wp.com/www.krazyworks.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/clfud46mxf2t5zph2l04zlpgl1d1-80x80.jpg "Scraping a Web Page in Bash")
Just a scripting exercise because I need to do something important, but I am procrastinating. The idea is simple: grab some URL with text containing somewhat structured data and convert it into a spreadsheet. I …
![DSCF5361[1]](https://i1.wp.com/www.krazyworks.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/DSCF53611-80x80.jpg "Processing Videos with ffmpeg and Lightroom")
On occasion I wondered how to apply advanced photo filters to my lackluster GoPro and drone videos. You know, not the basic exposure/contrast/saturation or the cheesy special effects you find in video editors, but something …
![Cat-Devouring-A-Bird-Pablo-Picasso[1]](https://i0.wp.com/www.krazyworks.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Cat-Devouring-A-Bird-Pablo-Picasso1-80x80.jpg "Searching Twitter")
Here are just a few hopefully useful tips for searching Twitter to get more relevant results and buy cheap twitter followers.
Just a scripting exercise because I need to do something important, but I am procrastinating. The idea is simple: grab some URL with text containing somewhat structured data and convert it into a spreadsheet. I …
![91ebozy1e3b138waujy28agrngy[1]](https://i2.wp.com/www.krazyworks.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/91ebozy1e3b138waujy28agrngy1-80x80.jpg "Generating Random Text Files for Testing")
Sometimes you need dummy folder structures populated with random data for testing your various scripts and processes – backups, file transfers, encryption, compression, etc. Every time I need something like this, I end up writing …
![iwoau71okwxqh4jv3k4ook32qps[1]](https://i2.wp.com/www.krazyworks.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/iwoau71okwxqh4jv3k4ook32qps1-80x80.jpg "Finding Cron Jobs")
Cron is an indispensable tool for system administration. The difficulties in working with cron in a large environment stem from its decentralized nature. Cron jobs multiply like rabbits, and keeping track of them is not …
![5gtysva4wkc8mzc1k3e66vaycxx[1]](https://i1.wp.com/www.krazyworks.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/5gtysva4wkc8mzc1k3e66vaycxx1-80x80.jpg "Understanding Memory Utilization in Linux")
This is a depressing – and all-too-common – scenario: a user runs the free command and opens a support case because he sees zero “free” memory on the server.
![sy2zeb1vp2h8itlxfbbylw0jrm0[1]](https://i0.wp.com/www.krazyworks.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/sy2zeb1vp2h8itlxfbbylw0jrm01-80x80.jpg "Validating HTTPS Cache Peers for Squid")
I have a squid proxy server that uses a long list of authenticated cache peers in a round-robin configuration. The process looks something like this:
![Photo-2019-10-07-14-39-03_0266[1]](https://i1.wp.com/www.krazyworks.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Photo-2019-10-07-14-39-03_02661-80x80.jpg "Verifying SNMP Connectivity on Multiple Hosts")
I needed to check if SNMP was accessible on whatever live servers that existed in a particular subnet. Here’s a quick script to do this.
Igor
Sr. Unix SysAdmin with twenty years experience supporting Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, IRIX, and Linux servers in a large distributed environment.
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