Efficiency vs. Inefficiency, in a no-holds barred fight.
Just a dumb trick I whipped up and was inordinately proud of. Sure I could go along to timeanddate dot com but I spend a lot of my time in my terminal and this is immediate. Small effort big payback. OK, so the code is just this, added to .bashrc The first block is the … Read more
I was getting a bit cramped for space on the root partition of an older desktop, which has been running for 4 years or so, and discovered that although I'd been running the 6.x kernel for several years, there was a lot of baggage from 5.x kernels lying around. Here's a reminder to myself how … Read more
I found a need for this once upon a time. It will descend through a Linux directory, get the permissions, ownership details for all the subdirs and then write a script for you to recreate it somewhere else. You use it like this. Script listing
OK, so its not too hard to run htpasswd manually, but if you spend a lot of time in your job doing it, it's nice to have a tool to do it more efficiently. This is a menu driven script, which will make a backup of your file, and suggest a random password, which you … Read more
Basic usage Output alternatives: Can also use >> to append to output file, or | tee to output to screen as it runs. Quoting preserves content If you're outputting a script you might need to preserve the variable notation instead of evaluating it. You can use either single or double quotes to do this. Zapping … Read more