Although in Linux you can easily create multi-part zip files, unzipping them can be problematic. By using the -s argument in the zip command you […]
Scripting, UNIX/Linux
Schedule cron Job on First Sunday of the Month
When you need to schedule a Unix or Linux job in crontab to run on the first Sunday of the month, or any other weekday […]
Firmware, Hacks, Scripting, UNIX/Linux
Automate Ad Blocking hosts file update on Router with DD-WRT Micro Edition
Your DD-WRT enabled router can be configured to block ads as described in the Ad Blocking article. For non-Micro DD-WRT versions the ad blocking hosts […]
AutoIt, Scripting, Windows
Getting Owner of a File in Windows
Through Windows’ WMI Service you can find out who the owner is of a file. This is somewhat similar to the user/group owner of a […]
Scripting, UNIX/Linux
Automate Tomcat startup/shutdown on Linux
If you need to automatically start/stop Tomcat each time you start/stop/reboot your Linux server, you can do so by creating a start/stop script under the […]
Scripting, UNIX/Linux
dos2unix alternative
If you need to convert a DOS text file to a UNIX text file, and the dos2unix command is not available on your platform, you […]
Scripting, UNIX/Linux
Exclude files and directories from tar
The example below shows how you can exclude file “somefile.txt” and directory “subfolder6” from the tar command:
Scripting, UNIX/Linux
Single command line to tar and gzip
Although there are several ways to achieve this, the way I most often tar and gzip files using a single command line is as follows: […]
Scripting, UNIX/Linux
Basics of UNIX shell scripts
With UNIX scripts you can do many powerful things. You won’t be able to take over the world with it, but it’s pretty close. Scripts […]