Simple netstat
By John C. Zastrow
netstat -tln | fgrep :10000
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Meet Bubba
By John C. ZastrowWe had originally planned to slow down after the wedding – Didn’t happen! Now that the wedding planning is not consuming our time, this past Tuesday we decided to apply as foster parents at the Northern VA Sheltie Rescue Association. We figured they would check our references, enroll us in... [Read More] -
Reformatting a text field in Microsoft Access to be a true date
By John C. ZastrowI had a text field (DATEOLD) with values like 20030526, that were dates in YYYYMMDD. [Read More] -
Sending files over SFTP in an automated fashion
By John C. ZastrowThe 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. ZastrowI 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. ZastrowWhat is crontab? [Read More] -
Greed is not synonymous with America
By John C. ZastrowBut 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. ZastrowBy: 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
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Search remotely and send the results to local machine
By John C. ZastrowIf 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]