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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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Bash scripting: lists and random things

April 16, 2013 – 12:39 pm
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Imagine you have an HPC cluster with a hundred compute nodes named node001-node100. The two commands below will help you generate a list of node names – either all name on one line or one name per …

iPhone Stopped Syncing with Google Calendar

April 3, 2013 – 3:05 pm
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A small but potentially annoying problem: on rare occasions, your iPhone/iPad may decide your calendar looks full enough and will stop syncing with your Google calendar. This is a situation where:

Calendar sync between your iDevice and …