I just built a new CentOS box and needed to make sure it had all the same packages installed as one of my other...

This is a common question: how can I run nohup without creating the annoying nohup.out ? And the common answer is: you can't. But this is...

This is a small collection of useful ss (written by Alexey Kuznetsov of the Russian Nuclear Research Institute) syntax examples that go beyond the basics covered by other...

Think of osync as a kind of rsync that is more suited for making backups. While rsync certainly has more options, osync takes a lot of the complexity...

Whenever an application description begins with phrases like "runs on anything" and "is easy to setup", attribute such bravado to the author's lack of experience outside...

Unlike most other popular scripting languages, Bash has few style-checking utilities. The best one, I think, is ShellCheck - a very cool and useful utility...

The Solaris date command does not have many of the useful features of its GNU equivalent. A workaround is to use Tcl. This requires tclsh...

It is generally a good idea to use full-disk encryption, especially on a laptop. However, this becomes bothersome if you are trying to re-partition...

The speedtest.net is probably one of the more popular bandwidth testing utilities, Unfortunately, this and many other similar tools require a Web browser with...