Linux: How to compress data in a remote server and save them locally in one command!
One of the most common tasks of a system administrator is to compress some files in a remote server and then move them to another server……
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Comparison of gzip, bzip2 and xz compression tools.
When storing data for archiving or transferring big files over the network the use of compression is often considered. Then we need to……
Use wget as download manager with some xargs magic
I needed a script that would do the following…
Linux: how to add a filesystem to fstab the right way
Searching the web for examples on how to mount drives on Linux returns a ton of results, most of those examples mounts the disk using the……
Rsync with tricks!
If you often need to copy or sync data from a server to another you will probably miss some of the following features…
Linux: a quick way to find swap usage of processes
Recently i had to deal with a swap usage issue, and i need a fast way to find out top swap consumer processes, a simple one-liner is this…
j2cli — Templating Shell Scripts
j2cli is a simple but awesome tool that provides an easy way to template shell scripts, it uses jinja2 as a templating engine…
How to remove ‘Unknown Locale (qaa-Latn)’ from windows
This tend to happen after windows update, the problem is that you cannot delete it from language preferences because is not listed there in……
learn regular expressions the easy way
Regular expressions is a sequence of characters that specify a search pattern, regexes are super useful and can help you in administration……
lftp: file tranfers with a very smart tool!
lftp is a very nice tool that can simplify file transfer operations that would be complicate to do with shell scripting…