Recently I encountered a problem where I had to create couple of arrays in bash and these were quite dynamic in nature. This script was supposed to be used by couple of guys whom I did not trust too …

Some days back, I had to generate some data to be uploaded to a database. As usual I assumed that bash should be faster and hence wrote the script to create the files in bash. But I found that even …

Broadcast your shell thru port 5000 […] <td> <div class="text codecolorer"> mkfifo /tmp/fifo;(nc -q0 -l 5000 < /tmp/fifo &);script -f /tmp/fifo </div> …

Sometimes, some small things that we don’t actually think can be useful are such useful. I faced this couple of days back when I was working on something and the amount of logs getting generated and …

Use the last command&#8217;s output as input to a command without piping and bind to it to a key sequence in <a class="zem_slink" title="Bash (Unix shell)" …

Some time back I wrote a blog on how to get your site stats using curl in <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/bash" title="Bash" rel="homepage" …

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Problem: I had a directory with a lot of config files in the ini file format, i.e. name and value separated by equals. Some/all of these contained some directory names and other values which had to be …

I wrote a simple script today to get all the partitions on all the disks and then create <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/fstab" title="Fstab" rel="wikipedia" …

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Heres the script: […] cat «EOF > login.sh for i in `cat logins` ; do login=`echo &#8221;$i&#8221;|awk -F&#8221;:&#8221; '{print $2}&#8217;`; …

I have quite a lot of servers where I need to ssh at workplace and I generally don&#8217;t remember all of them, so I wrote a simple yet useful script. In all the servers I have already copied my …