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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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Copying Data in a Restricted Environment

August 17, 2019 – 8:04 pm
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Consider this not-so-hypothetical scenario: you have some data on server_a that you would like to copy to server_b. Unfortunately, these two servers cannot communicate with each other. Nor do they have access to any common …

Raising Dead Services

August 15, 2019 – 2:23 pm
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I suppose you may say all of this can be just as easily done via systemd service config files. Well, yes and no. Yes, it can. And, no, not as easily. Not even close. Because …