As a SysAdmin, I need to manage the filesystems on the hosts in my home lab. There’s...
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1 Whenever I change passwords on my systems, I need to try to think up ones that...
1 For some reason, the Fedora packagers are hiding a large number of package groups so that...
For many years, the de facto standard in file archives was Pkzip and Pkunzip, by Phil Katz....
Here are 7 ways I like to use the ed editor for daily tasks.
Here are 3 ways that I use aliases on FreeDOS:
You can make your program much more flexible if it can respond to the user every time...
2 Cat is a fairly simple tool designed to concatenate and write file(s) to your screen, which...
2 Services, services, services. A service is a huge part of computing. You’re reading this article on...
Learn the basics of this handy command line calculator.
I used the command line to do in seconds what would have needed more than ten minutes...
Use kernel messages to identify which disk device you can mount.
Change pandoc's curly quotes into straight quotes with this script.
1 I have a Raspberry Pi 3 that’s sat unused for the last few years. I used...
The awk script interpreter is a very handy tool for systems administrators, and anyone else who uses...
If you use the command line at all, you’re probably familiar with the basic concept of redirection...