example finding a block. start string and reverse search up to next string. then replacing a line inside the block bash example $ cat listener-update.sh…
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example finding a block. start string and reverse search up to next string. then replacing a line inside the block bash example $ cat listener-update.sh…
Couple of things here: I wanted to do some restic scripts At the same time use a configuration file. The restic developers is working on…
Also see previous post https://blog.ls-al.com/bash-date-usage-for-naming if you are interested. This post is similar but more specific to restic tagging. Below is a test script and…
I was recently needing to read values from a configuration file into bash and had some success with reading json with jq into bash array(s).…
If you like using Control-R in bash to find previous commands here is a useful tip. You can add a comment to a command and…
If you don’t have telnet or nc installed and want to quickly test firewall traffic to a server and specific port you can try this.…
I am recording some scripting I used to create backup classification/retention naming. It can be simplified into one function easily but I kept it like…
Quick example of spawning a problem that have a password prompt and can’t accept a documented parameter for a password. I used another bash script…
I noticed on Fedora it is really easy to enable powerline in your terminal. This article explains it well: http://fedoramagazine.org/add-power-terminal-powerline/ On Ubuntu 15.04 it looks…
Quick script to illustrate interacting with the ZFS Storage Appliance. In this example I am listing ZFSSA snapshots containing a search string. Note I edited…