Splitting up files to easily send them in chunks in email attachments or uploading onto forms on a website can be a tricky situation. Check out this guide from OSTechNix…
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Pro Tip: For, While and Until Loops
LEVEL: SYSADMIN / TIME: 1-2 min. Here’s some handy quick reference examples to go back to easily if you are needing to use for, while and until loops in your…
SSHFS? What’s that and how do I use it?
Check out Tecmint’s great article on SSHFS, a way that you can securely see the filesystem of a remote computer, using the SSH protocol. It works kind of like NFS,…
How to get to a service/server which is on an inaccessible network (using SSH tunnels)
In the latest of our ‘just the examples’, imagine you are in a scenario where you want to ssh to a server (or even browse a web page etc) on a…
80 Linux Monitoring Tools for SysAdmins
Have a look at this excellent list of tools for monitoring your Linux servers! We could add the same list, but it would just be downright thievery, it’s the most…
How to setup a KVM server the fast way
This is a very short quick setup on how to get KVM (The Linux Kernel Virtual Machine hypervisor) server up and running. Why KVM? KVM is a hypervisor, just like…
Quick Tip: convert images at the command line with ImageMagick
ImageMagick is a very mature tool. It’s been around for donkeys years and it even acts as the silent ‘back end’ to some of the best GUI-based image manipulation software.…
How to tar (compress) files up, excluding certain files or directories
If you’ve ever been making a backup of an entire Linux system, or maybe just a number of folders but there were certain folders or files that you didn’t want…
Using Google Drive from the Linux Command Line
GDrive Gdrive is a command line tool which manages, uploads, downloads, deletes and shares files on Google Drive. You can download the tool from Github at https://github.com/prasmussen/gdrive. Unfortunately it does not support…
How to use Alpine to use iCloud/GMail email from the command line
Some times you are in an ssh session, administering a machine, it’s a slow link, or it’s just not practical to have a shiny graphical email program up and running.…