Unix Tutorial Digest – February 2nd, 2020
For those staying up late to watch Super Bowl LIV and those just looking for a few interesting links, here’s the monthly summary of Unix/Linux news and Unix Tutorial posts.
For those staying up late to watch Super Bowl LIV and those just looking for a few interesting links, here’s the monthly summary of Unix/Linux news and Unix Tutorial posts.

Sometimes it’s not enough to know that a certain package is installed on your Linux system. You want to know the …

I’ve come across XZ files more than once, most recently when downloading Kali Linux. It should be a fairly common …

Kali Linux 2020.1 This time I’m definitely installing it on my Raspberry Pi 4! Kali Linux just released the very …

Deleting minikube Don’t remember how, but I ended up with two Kubernetes installs on my mcfly desktop with macOS: …
Yesterday Linux Kernel 5.5 was released, almost exactly 2 months since the Linux Kernel 5.4. Here’s what I find …

Ignore SSL warnings in curl Sometimes your testing scenario or cycle is so far ahead of your infrastructure that you …

Red Hat Ansible If you plan on starting with Ansible any time soon, one thing you can really appreciate is that prior to …

Error Output STDERR Redirection Input/output redirection is a fundamental functionality in Unix and Linux. It’s a …
So, long story… After upgrading to macOS Catalina my years-old automount.sh script running via cron stopped working. …