Sometimes it happen that: for mistakes, because you don’t rotate your logs or perhaps they growth up really quickly, that you need to analyse a large file (> 1GB) for searching a specific pattern of text. Probably you’ll go nowhere if you try to open them with vi or worst with a graphical editor like […]
If you use Ubuntu or Suse you probably already have Apparmor installed on your system, so take a moment and see how this software can help you. And also if you don’t use these distributions, this article can be interesting if you are interested at the security of your Linux Box. AppArmor (“Application Armor”) is […]
I think that a lot of computer user are now used to the concept of copy on the “Cloud”, with tools like Dropbox or Ubuntu One, you can have the same file saved in multiple computers (also with a different operating system) and at the same time have a copy of it on the Cloud. […]
Sometimes in my small shell script i’ve to do some math, usually nothing too complex but it’s useful to do the math inside the bash script. Bash it’s really complete and among the many builtin functions there are also some mathematical functions. Using the syntax $((expression)) you can evaluate the expression. Operations allowed are quite […]
After many years of administration of Unix/Linux systems and using bash for many tasks i’ve discovered the command tac, the contrary of cat, What this command do it’s to concatenate and print files in reverse order, it writes each file to standard output, last line first. bash$ cat file1.txt This is the line 1. This […]