Coming from Windows I sometimes still have the desire or need for a desktop shortcut/symlink. There are two easy options for this Right click the application, select “Make Alias” and drag that alias to the desktop and potentially rename it at one point or the other. Open Terminal (Applications –…
Category: CentOS
Posts in this category are specific to CentOS and may or may not work on Fedora and Red Hat or other UNIX based systems.
UNIX Terminal – Grep Directory Recursively
Sometimes you really need to find a file that has certain text in it, these commands will help provided you have an idea of the directory or the string
Linux/Unix/Mac OSX – Find & Remove Empty Directories
Occasionally you get empty directories and need to clear them out, these scripts below will help with that, just be careful what directory you choose. The scripts below are set to ~/ (current user home directory) but can easily be changed to any directory on your system. Similarly if you…
UNIX – Extract RedHat/CentOS/Fedora RPM File
I love to find RPM files that someone has compiled so that I don’t have to do the manual work but when I find one at a questionable location or one I’m simply not familiar with it’s nice to know what is in it. Recently I did a search on…
PowerShell – Azure – Create UNIX VM
If you have a need to create a few VMs it can get a bit tedious to build them in one of the various portals. Set the variables then let this script run. At some point I will create a function around this but for now the script works as…
PowerShell – Azure – Get VM Image List
When installing a new VM in Azure it’s helpful to know your options Another example, say you are looking for a specific released version of Red Hat This command currently comes up with this as a response Get latest image
CentOS – WordPress Install
These steps are based on CentOS Server 64-bit Download CentOS Install CentOS Configure CentOS Install WordPress Configure WordPress Backup/Restore MySQL Database Download CentOS First we must download the CentOS DVD image, it is recommended to download straight from the official CentOS site (https://www.centos.org/download/). For this document we will use CentOS…
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