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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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IMDb Movie Title Parser in Bash

July 12, 2019 – 7:19 pm
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This is an update to the IMDb parser I wrote years back. From time to time IMDb makes small changes to their setup that break my script. This time they decided to start blocking curl, …

Sending Windows Logs to Remote Syslog

July 6, 2019 – 11:21 am
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Nothing fancy here: just a quick note on directing Windows event logs and select application logs to a remote syslog server.

Plugging iPhone’s Privacy

July 3, 2019 – 11:19 am
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Many recent publications , , suggest the iPhone is full of security holes threatening your privacy. The threat seems to be coming not so much from the phone’s operating system, but from the apps, …