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The seq(1) command is oft-overlooked. Put simply, it'll generate sequences of numbers.
In its most simple form
seq 100
will return the numbers 1 to 100.
Or perhaps:
seq 10 5 100
which...
The thoughtful people over at DNS-OARC are hosting a server that enables you to test the suitability of your resolver for the DNSSEC switchover, which is already underway.
The short version is, is...
It happens to us all at some point: editing a file (usually a root-owned and writable file) under your own normal user account. More often than not, I only realize after I've made a bunch of change...
If as a Linux native you find yourself on a Solaris box, you'll noticed that from Solaris 10 SYS V rc-style scripts are no longer used to control daemon processes. Instead, the SMF system is used.
...
History expansion, much like the command
cd -
which moves you into the directory that you were in immediately prior to the current one, is an oft-overlooked but powerful and convienient mecha...
I’ve been using a couple of nice shell aliases when working with ad-hoc iptables rules. You can spruce them up as a batch file, but they’re fine for me as a quick and dirty way to manip...
The bash shell has a powerful history mechanism, which in its default state isn't too useful. Luckily the modifications are quite easy to make.
Hit Ctrl-R and then type the first few letters of a ...
To display the top 10 consumers of memory:
ps -auxf | sort -nr -k 4 | head -10
To display the top 10 consumers of CPU:
ps -auxf | sort -nr -k 3 | head -10
Hopefully you will be using SMF to manage the services. You will doubtless know that the command
svcadm restart domain1
would restart a domain. However, if you want to script your restart lik...