where I think out loud
Background So, I have this 15-inch MacBook Pro with Retina Display early 2013 lying around and am contemplating buying the 2016 one. But, to be honest, I’m not so sure that I will be getting the best bang for my buck. As such, I am looking to see if moving away from the macOS ecosystem…
Here’s a script that will help you count the lines of input from the standard input: result=0 while read inputline do result=`expr $result + 1` done echo $result Now, you can find out the number of files in a directory using: ls -1 | count Update As Jeff Harver has kindly pointed out in the…
I was up to maintenance of my Debian box, and I came in need of creating and maintaining multiple, date-based backups of the machine. Here is the bash script I wrote to accomplish this. #!/bin/bash #Shell Script to backup desired target verbose=”0″ tarv=”” if test “$1” == “-v”; then verbose=”1″ tarv=”-v” fi if test “$verbose”…
Have you ever wanted to have your *nix shell access Twitter? Using the RESTful API, you can achieve this. However, you would need to set up your instance as an app and then configure the API keys and all the what-nots. I personally try to avoid such hassle whenever possible. So, I got this shell…
I recently had a problem with my Debian box; namely, that I couldn’t access my superuser shell the usual way by typing: su – As this is a problem with the user bit of the “su” command not being set properly, you can fix this by logging in as root (or any other user with…
Here’s a short tutorial showing how to set up SSH authorized keys.
Adding a user with bash command is simple: “useradd username”
I ran a test with gnome-shell over my Ubuntu Karmic installtion.