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Category Archives: Command line
Fixing GRUB
Just a few days ago I had installed the new version of Mint on a second partition. The installation succeeded, so everything’s good, right? Well, no. Because unfortunately, this installation somehow screwed up the GRUB configuration, leading to GRUB both … Continue reading
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Tagged boot, booting from grub, efi, fix grub, grub, uefi
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command line fun – finding security problems with find
I cannot actually remember how it happened. I wasn’t paying enough attention and was viewing one of my scripts on production. When I was finished I did what I always do in vi – I exited the script using : … Continue reading
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Tagged best practices, howto, scripting, security
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installing maven on linux
Maven offers quite a bit as a enterprise build tool. It can help ensure that standards are followed and offers support for automated testing. This tool is actually really simple to install. It is just a matter of unpacking it … Continue reading
command line fun – unlimited command line length
While looking into another problem, plethora of shells, I was initially afraid that some of my fooling around was causing some odd side effects. While investigating I ended up with a different solution that was actually overkill but it help … Continue reading
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Tagged linux, scripting
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a plethora of shells – what is my shell interpreter
I kept seeing odd error messages from my shell script that simply made no sense. No matter what changes I made a new error seemed to pop up. A short while later I did notice at the top of the … Continue reading
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Tagged linux, scripting
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Installing Java 8 on Linux
I hate to admit it but for some tasks on Linux are easier for some less technical people on other operating systems like windows. Simply run the executable which, most of the time, prompts for the install path and then proceeds to … Continue reading
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command line fun – finding a list of files
In Unix at the command line there is almost always an alternative method to do something. I usually remember this when I need to process a few files in the current working directory and I may not always have the … Continue reading
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command line fun – finding the right jar file
Where did I set down my mobile phone is quickly answered by a quick telephone call or a sms from another phone. If everything were only that simple. I receive a bit of code from a buddy at work that … Continue reading
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Tagged linux, scripting
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windows scripting
I was asked the other day if I could take over a task that was running on windows machine. The sentence was hardly out of my boss’s mouth when he said that “you unix guys don’t like windows though”. Well, … Continue reading
bridging the gap to excel – unoconv tool
Some time back a customer asked that I provide my estimated hours every week. I kept track of all my hours in a simple text file which is ok for reminding yourself of what happened but not so professional when … Continue reading
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