This one isn't strictly Linux per se, but I really went down the rabbit hole and wasted about a half of day trying to track…
Continue reading → Linux Tips I Wish I Knew Long Ago: Postgresql & Python
This is one I constantly forget, but $_ in a bash shell (and other languages like Perl and I know it's in Windows Powershell but…
tmux is a terminal multiplexer. What does that mean? It means you can essentially start different "sessions" in the terminal and switch between them, and…
Recently I ran into an issue with a very basic service where I needed to know which config file it was using but the "ps"…
Continue reading → Linux Tips I Wish I Knew Long Ago – Finding open files with the proc directory
I've often needed to change the owner of a bunch of files in a directory. My standard goto has always been: chmod -R user.group *…
Continue reading → Linux Tips I Wish I Knew Long Ago – Chmod Hidden Files
The scenario was that I was in a data center of about 35 Dell servers. There were no labels on the servers (thanks again previous…
Mount --bind is one of those tricks you need when symlinks are not good enough and you need the same information in two locations. It…
Continue reading → Linux Tips I Wish I Knew Long Ago – Mount bind
