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Finding the Offending Directories | FreedomPenguin
Sometimes you really don’t want to back up certain things on a computer. I wrote this article to show how I diagnose when too much is being backed up.
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Applying patches?
You know me, I love using bash. for f in ~/Documents/jbr_patches/*diff ; do \ echo $f; patch -p1 < $f || exit 1; \ sleep 1 ; done Right.
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Did you know about e4defrag?
I have never used either BleachBit or e4defrag, but I’m looking forward to trying them out.
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Finding Recent Files | FreedomPenguin
Here starts my new series of articles on making backups on the command-line. The heart of the process is the “find” program.
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Max out your IOPs with GNU Parallel
The GNU Parallel program is a clever way to simultaneously operate thing on multiple files (and other things). Tonight, we create the most IO intensive way to copy virtual machine images from one system to another: parallel rsync. My source system is an 8-core E5 with 32G of ram. I’m trying to backup 400+GB of…
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Learn How To Code With Star Wars: The Force Awakens Characters
http://gizmodo.com/learn-how-to-code-with-star-wars-the-force-awakens-cha-1741510958
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Skimming Files Before You Grep Them – Freedom Penguin
Here are a few of my file searching strategies . http://freedompenguin.com/articles/how-to/skimming-files-before-you-grep-them/?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=google_plus&utm_source=socialnetwork
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Extracting and Organizing with Bash | FreedomPenguin
Doing reports and organizing things doesn’t always need Perl. Bash can do a fine job of organizing things.
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Speeding ahead with ZFS and VirtualBox | FreedomPenguin
I have created a lot of VMs with VirtualBox and I organize their snapshotting with ZFS.
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