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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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Whiptail and Dialog Snippets

November 27, 2017 – 3:41 am
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Whiptail is a newt-based utility allowing to build pseudo-graphical dialog boxes from shell scripts. Dialog uses ncurses and is similar to whiptail but has more options and, consequently, a bit harder to use. I find both useful …

Export WP Posts and Sync to Sharepoint

November 14, 2017 – 12:24 pm
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Long story short: old wiki is overloaded and broken; new wiki is not a wiki but SharePoint – a glorified file server; people are forced to improvise and put documentation on a WP wiki; bosses …

CLI System Monitoring Tools

November 12, 2017 – 12:24 pm
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The multitude of sophisticated centralized monitoring tools available these days excel at one thing: telling you what happened while you’ve been sleeping. But what if you’re awake and need to know what’s going on right …

Useful MySQL One-Liners

November 8, 2017 – 12:16 pm
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I am by no means an expert SQL programmer. Having said that, I’ve been using MySQL for a very long time. This is a collection of simple but useful SQL queries and MySQL configuration options. …