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Search String in Directory – UNIX

Search String in Directory – UNIX How to search for a string in a selection of files (-exec grep …). [bash] find . -exec grep “searchstring” ‘{}’ \; -print [/bash] [bash] find . -exec grep “searchstring” ‘{}’ \; -ls [/bash] This command will search in the current directory and all sub directories. All files that […]
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Date/Time in a Timestamp format – Perl

Date/Time in a Timestamp format – Perl [perl] use Date::Manip; #### – Get DATE / TIME in correct format – ########## my $day= strftime “%d”, localtime; my $month= strftime “%m”, localtime; my $year = strftime “%Y”, localtime; my $now = localtime(time()); #################################################### $form_date_start = “$year/$month/$day 06:00:00”; [/perl]
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RedHat vs Ubuntu – Useful Package Commands

RedHat vs Ubuntu – Useful Package Commands Task Red Hat/Fedora Ubuntu Refresh list of available packages Yum refreshes each time it’s used apt-get update Install a package from a repository yum install package_name apt-get install package_name Install a package file yum install package.rpm rpm -i package.rpm dpkg –install package.deb Remove a package rpm -e package_name […]
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Add a timestamp to every STDOUT line

Add a timestamp to every STDOUT line I found this useful for debugging and just handy to have in the toolbox. Alias within your profile! Use: ./anyscript_you_choose | ./addtime [perl] #!/bin/perl -w # filename: ./addtime my($old)=select(STDOUT); $|=1; select(STDIN); $|=1; select ($old); while(<>) { my($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year,$wday,$ydat,$isdst)= localtime (time); printf “%02d:%02d:%4d %02d:%02d:%02d %s”,$mday,$mon+1,$year+1900,$hour,$min,$sec,$_; } [/perl]
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Perl – Get the md5 hash for a file

Perl – Get the md5 hash for a file Get the MD5 hash for a file on the command line, using Digest::MD5 usage: ./md5sum.pl [filename] [-f] -f do not display filename [perl] use warnings; use strict; use Digest::MD5; sub md5sum { my $file = shift; my $digest = “”; eval{ open(FILE, $file) or die “Can’t […]
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Copying a filesystem with Veritas

Copying a filesystem with Veritas This procedure is to create an exact copy of a Veritas filesystem. You will need enough spare disks in your volume group, and ideally anything using the filesystem should be killed. create a mirror # vxassist -g tier3dg mirror tier3fs # vxprint tier3fs Disk group: tier3dg TY NAME ASSOC KSTATE […]
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