101Linux
Shell script: US federal holidays
This script is written based on the list of U.S. federal holidays I found in Wikipedia - Wikipedia - U.S. Federal holidays. Some of the dates, such as New Year, are
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102Linux
strace – tracing syscall by example
The strace command allows us to trace the system calls made by a program. In this blog, I will show you how you can use strace to capture some of the syscalls made b
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103Linux
The Zen of Python
The Zen of Python
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104Linux
Linux security tip of the day
Users accounts usually get created and removed on most Development or Production servers. It is not uncommon to simply delete the users and yet not either delete or
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105Linux
Could not chdir to home directory: Permission denied
Problem: every time a user logs in, they get "Could not chdir to home directory....Permission denied" error, although they can login to the system and change to thei
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106Linux
How do you compare two folders and copy the difference to a third folder?
This is my first attempt in response to a question posed in one of StackExchange sites for Unix/Linux - How do you compare two folders and copy the difference to a t
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107Linux
Extract bookmarks or favorites from your Firefox browser
Getting the URLs in your favorites or bookmarks as a plain list.
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108Linux
Script to download youtube videos as mp3
In order to use this script, you need to do certain things in advance -
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109Linux
Modifying user-agent in curl or wget
Recently I was trying to download numerous files from a certain website using a shell script I wrote. With in the script, first I used wget to retrieve the files, bu
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110Linux
Prevent accidental termination of a virtual machine in AWS
Amazon provides extensive tools to manage virtual machines hosted on Amazon web services(AWS). It is very easy to launch VMs, and a lot easier to destroy or terminat
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