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...
Some thoughts
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...
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 Building a RAID array using mdadm – two primary steps: “mdadm –create” to build the array using available resources “mdadm –detail –scan” to build...
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 bunch of processes have failed – and you’d like to restart them in a screen session in case you need to rerun them in...
Ever wondered why you can read the $LINES and $COLUMNS environment variables from your text shell and have them seemingly aware (or indeed, actually aware)...
A list of commands / references I’ve found useful. Also see my old wiki page. stdbuf – Run COMMAND, with modified buffering operations for its...