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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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To display file’s modification, last access, etc

November 19, 2005 – 11:14 pm
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Display a file’s modification, last access and other attributes on Solaris.

Using NetBackup to restore boot disk

November 19, 2005 – 11:13 pm
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enable “Rename hard links”
disable “Rename soft links”
if root of destination drive is mounted as /destination/ then select “Restore to alternate path: from / to /destination/ , Restore search path
This is the alternate path for everything: …

Create tarball

November 19, 2005 – 10:42 pm
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The Unix tar command creates an archive of files and directories while preserving directory structure, file permissions and ownership information. This command is ideally suited for creating backups of most types of data. Many open-source …

Move USER to new primary group

November 19, 2005 – 10:41 pm
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A sample process for moving a user to a new primary home group on Solaris.

Check if Solaris supports 64-bit applications

November 19, 2005 – 10:41 pm
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How to determine if your installation of Solaris supports 64-bit applications.

Unix Files Transferred To CD

November 19, 2005 – 10:40 pm
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In our example we were requested to archive a 741 mb directory to CD. The source data resided on a Unix data server.

Copy directory structure and files with cpio

November 19, 2005 – 10:38 pm
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A basic command to copy directory structure and contents using cpio.

Using FTP with pipes

November 19, 2005 – 10:37 pm
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All The Reasons Pot Is Good For You

AP/Damian Dovarganes
Colorado and Washington both passed legislation that legalizes the recreational use of marijuana on Tuesday.

While recreational marijuana is controversial, many people believe that the drug should be legal, especially …

Create TAR and pipe through gzip

November 19, 2005 – 10:36 pm
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A simple example of creating a gzip-compressed tar archive of the current directory.

Fsck operations

November 19, 2005 – 10:36 pm
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The following is a collection of examples using fsck command. It is important to unmount VXFS before running fsck on Veritas filesystem.

RSync remote copy

November 19, 2005 – 10:35 pm
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The following is an example of using rsync to perform a irectory copy between two hosts over the network.

Oracle reinstallation

November 19, 2005 – 10:35 pm

Before beginning Oracle REinstall, make sure to remove the /var/opt/oracle/oraInst.loc file created by /tmp/orainstRoot.sh script during prior installation.
 
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