If you have followed this blog for a while, you should remember how to use variables in Unix shell scripts.
Going further, I’d like to show you some basics of working with time and date in your scripts – generating all sorts of timestamps and timing some parts of your script for reporting purposes.
Certain situations require you to quickly confirm which files between two directories are different, and while your …
Finding out the username by user id (uid) in Unix is not as common a task as determining the uid by a username, but if …
If you tried installing or upgrading Ubuntu recently, you probably noticed that all the storage devices are now using …
Any Unix shell script longer than a line will most likely involve using variables. Variables are used to store temporary …
Showing your processes in a hierarchical list is very useful for confirming the relationship between every process …
For all of you who were waiting for the next release of Ubuntu, it’s finally here! I’ve been using the beta …
What are atime, ctime and mtime? As you know, Unix filesystems store a number of timestamps for each file. Why are they …
Another quick answer to the question I see a lot in search queries on this blog: listing directories in a directory.
Very quick tip for you today, I just see that many of visitors of this block are curious how they can find a directory …
Quick note on filesystem resize on a typical …
macOS Tahoe is the upcoming major release of macOS …
BASH is my Linux shell of choice (it’s zsh on …
hey Unless you disable SIP, most of DTrace based …
I reliased one of my Raspberry Pi systems was …
Apple keeps shipping public betas of macOS Sequoia …
Another video on my YouTube channel …