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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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Late Night Rant #26

March 30, 2015 – 12:30 am
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When you’ve ls’d, grepped, catted, piped and tailed everything on your computer and there is absolutely nothing left to do, there’s always this…

Protected: Raspberry Pi 2 and OpenELEC/Kodi Configuration Notes

March 15, 2015 – 12:01 pm

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Login Monitor

March 6, 2015 – 12:02 am
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Sometimes after a couple of beers I start feeling paranoid. I make sure the door is locked and check my firewall logs. Here’s a very basic script to monitor your server’s login record and notify you about …

IMDB Lookup Script

March 5, 2015 – 1:02 pm
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IMDB is one of the most complete movie and television databases on the Internet. It offers an advanced Web search UI, but Unix CLI support has been discontinued years ago and the old scripts no …