Jeff Beard » Systems Administration http://jeffbeard.org blog.blog Wed, 16 Dec 2009 15:45:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Unix CLI Command Repository http://jeffbeard.org/2009/02/unix-cli-command-repository/ http://jeffbeard.org/2009/02/unix-cli-command-repository/#comments Thu, 05 Feb 2009 15:48:45 +0000 Jeff http://jeffbeard.org/?p=38 I just found the Command Line Fu command repository via reddit.com. Tons of very useful commands for a variety of tasks.

For those that might not be a *nix sysadmin, you’re missing the joy of firing off scripts from the command line that can do an extraordinary amount of work in a short amount of time. I was a veritable hero early in my career when I was able to help a client replace a copyright string in some 5000 files and create backups with this one:

find . -type f -name '*.html' | xargs grep -l '©' | xargs perl -pi.bak -e 's/©1997/©1999/g'

Or something like that.

Regardless, the client was amazed and happy that one could work such magic in just a few minutes and the content in the Command Line Fu repository looks chock full of opportunities to amaze folks with your wizardry.

]]> http://jeffbeard.org/2009/02/unix-cli-command-repository/feed/ 0 New Web Site, Again http://jeffbeard.org/2009/01/new-web-site-again/ http://jeffbeard.org/2009/01/new-web-site-again/#comments Sun, 01 Feb 2009 01:14:35 +0000 Jeff http://jeffbeard.org/?p=3 I’ve setup a new blog on a new server for a variety of reasons, mostly having to do with it being a terrible idea to host on my home network. I’ve chosen a hosting service provider rather than hosting it on my own hardware. I’m using Slicehost for now. It’s fairly inexpensive (not the cheapest by far), has a good amount of positive buzz around it and they use operating system virtualization. This is cool since I get full control of my “slice” (Ubuntu) just like a regular server but upgrades are done through a web-based management console so I don’t have to drive to a Denver hosting facility to do maintenance. If I need to upgrade memory or storage I can do so with a click or two. Plus I can take snapshots of the entire slice which can be used to rebuild the whole VPS through a nifty administrative console. They don’t offer much storage but I plan to use Amazon S3 for storage on the cheap.

Anyway, so far so good.

Next up is moving my 25 web sites to the new server! (Who knew I was so rich in Internet property!)

Anyway, I’ll be posting up my old articles and files over the next couple of weeks but in the meantime here’s a nice picture:

The Flatirons

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