2020
How To Format Date And Time In Linux, MacOS, And Bash?
by orieg
Find out how to manipulate date and time on linux and macOS systems as well as natively in the Bash shell. This post covers all you need to know to format a date from your shell.
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Things UNIX can do atomically — Crowley Code!
by sylvainulg (via)
mv -T oldsymlink newsymlink atomically changes the target of newsymlink to the directory pointed to by oldsymlink and is indispensable when deploying new code.
gnuplot / datafile (2E)
by sylvainulg
Yeah! On a Unix system, you can have gnuplot doing the pre-processing for you: no need to duplicate intermediate version of your raw input files ^o^
gnuplot> plot "< head -10 test.dat" using 1:2 with lines
gnuplot> plot "< tail -3 test.dat" using 1:2 with lines
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2013
FIND AND REPLACE with SED
by Hieroglyphe
$ find /home/bruno/old-friends -type f -exec sed -i 's/ugly/beautiful/g' {} ;
Webmin
by jdrsantos & 7 others
"Webmin is a web-based interface for system administration for Unix. Using any modern web browser, you can setup user accounts, Apache, DNS, file sharing and much more. Webmin removes the need to manually edit Unix configuration files like /etc/passwd, and lets you manage a system from the console or remotely. "
First 5 Minutes Troubleshooting A Server | devo.ps
by Xavier Lacot & 1 other
The first things to do when auditing an unknown server
2012
A Unix Utility You Should Know About: Pipe Viewer
by François Hodierne & 4 others
Nice for MySQL imports for instance.
pv dump.sql | mysql -uUSERNAME -pPASSWORD database
All commands | commandlinefu.com
by François Hodierne & 9 others
commandlinefu.com is the place to record those command-line gems that you return to again and again.
