Working With Files in Python
The os module of Python provides an Operating System abstraction layer when we want to perform file operations, to delete a file in Linux…
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// also on this box: ./practice, ./tools and ./games
Get Information About Files Using Python
Python has built-in functions to get information about files and this is very handy because this allows us to get that information for any…
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Python: how to read files
Python like many other languages has built in commands to interact with files, lets see how they work.
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Docker: scale up a tor proxy for web scrapping
A tor proxy can be used for web scrapping operations, it has the benefit that the tor ip is updated every some minutes an even in case of…
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Linux: Awesome tricks with the CONT and STOP signals and the renice command
The kill command can send a variety of signals to a process and not just terminate a process like its name suggest, but that’s is default…
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Linux: Troubleshoot programs with strace like a pro
What you can do when a program crass without any error or log indicating that something goes wrong? and you don't have the source code? use…
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Git: doing common tasks (part 2)
In this part we will focus interacting with remote repositories, remote repositories are used when people want to collaborate.
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Git: doing common tasks (part 1)
Git is an essential tool if you are a developer a sysadmin or a devops engineer, it can help you keep track changes in files you are…
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Linux: The pee command, redirect stdin to multiple command pipelines
The Linux pee command will split your stdout to two or more streams which can be super handy in situations where stdin data processing in…
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Linux: The diff and patch commands.
As a Linux sysadmin / developer you will need more than once to update files and pass those changes to other users, most likely you will do…
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