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Increasing / decreasing number of xargs parallel processes (at run time!)
xargs makes it very easy to quickly run a set of similar processes in parallel – but did you know when you’re half-way through a...
Vim sub-replace-special – ampersands in substitute search/replace
Curious… While editing in vim you want to search and replace including a sub-string with an ampersand (&) – this doesn’t have an special regular...
stdbuf – Run COMMAND, with modified buffering operations for its standard streams
While piping together commands that only output intermittently we run into the pipe buffers created by the pipe() system call (also see overview of pipes...
Disk Usage
To review disk usage recursively – a few different options exist (when scanning manually through with df and du are not enough). I have found...
md (software RAID) and lvm (logical volume management)
md Building a RAID array using mdadm – two primary steps: “mdadm –create” to build the array using available resources “mdadm –detail –scan” to build...
Supporting old Debian distros
For old servers that need to stay that way (for whatever reason) updates are no longer available but you can access the packages that were...
A quick start for Python decorators
Synopsis #!/usr/bin/env python3 import shutil # Decorator which pre-checks the space in /tmp # and throws an exception if the space is more than #...
PyCon(line) AU 2020 Rube Codeberg competition
This is for fun, for silliness and for do not use anywhere-ness – or to quote the instructions: If you’ve ever wondered just how egregious...
A tale of two burst balances (AWS EC2 and EBS performance)
When using and monitoring AWS for EC2 instances and their attached EBS volumes there are a couple of very important metrics to keep an eye...