Posts in this category are specific to CentOS and may or may not work on Fedora and Red Hat or other UNIX based systems.
Working on a backup and restore script I often need only to know what the latest backup/archive file is, this command helps you learn that.
Secure Copy (SCP) is a useful UNIX command that allows you to securely copy files and directories between your local machine and a remote computer. In the examples below “-P 22” is not actually needed if the SSH port is 22. Many of the servers I connect to have a different port for security reasons…
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 – Utilities) and run a command…
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
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. This first block will only list the empty…
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 RPMFind.net for Redis (https://www.rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=redis) I…
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 is.
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