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Sending files over SFTP in an automated fashion

By John C. Zastrow

Posted on July 5, 2008

The exerpts below describe how to use SFTP to transfer files from one machine to another in automated fashion, such as using shell scripts. I needed to do this as part of a back up script. [Read More]

Selecting Date from a Mysql field in specific format

By John C. Zastrow

Posted on July 5, 2008

I had a membership table with users and the datetime at which they joined the site. I needed to get a count of members joining per month, so I did this: [Read More]

Automate your life

By John C. Zastrow

Posted on July 5, 2008

What is crontab? [Read More]

Greed is not synonymous with America

By John C. Zastrow

Posted on July 5, 2008

But it’s getting harder to prove that point to myself when I read things like this. [Read More]

Linux.com: Bugs in your shell script?

By John C. Zastrow

Posted on July 5, 2008

By: Larry Reckner Topics: Shell Subsection: Intermediate If your writing a shell script and want to watch exactly what is going on (very usefull for debugging purposes), add the line [Read More]

The power of xargs

By John C. Zastrow

Posted on July 5, 2008

Excerpted (stolen) from [Read More]

Search remotely and send the results to local machine

By John C. Zastrow

Posted on July 5, 2008

If you want to grep (search) through a log file while you’re ssh’d in to a server and then get that output to yourself on your workstation. I usually do “grep … > ~/file.txt” and then scp it over. [Read More]

Testing your web apps

By John C. Zastrow

Posted on July 5, 2008

Stress testing an application with JMeter [Read More]

Mounting your old linux HD to recover files

By John C. Zastrow

Posted on July 5, 2008

A quickie lesson in mounting – If I have an old linux drive with stuff on it that I want to use in another linux system (and I do), these are the steps that I would follow. I would use the SLAVE, MASTER, CABLE SELECT jumper on the harddrive to... [Read More]

Handy shell file lister for cygwin or *NIX

By John C. Zastrow

Posted on July 5, 2008

This tip is useful for any system with a useful implementaion of [Read More]

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