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Managing Background Tasks in the Bash Shell

10 Jun 2010 1 Comment

In the the Unix Bash shell the “&” (ampersand) character is a control operator used to fork processes.

ampersand, bash, forking, job number, jobs, man page, pid, process id, unix

Sending Tweets from the command line using a Bash script

02 Jun 2010 3 Comments

The Twitter API makes it very simple to send tweets with curl via a Bash script.

api, bash, bash scripting, coding, curl, linux, post, tips, tricks, tweet, twitter, unix

Checking kernel, architecture, and release (distribution) information on Linux

10 Jan 2010 1 Comment

The ‘uname’ utility can be used to check a Linux operating system’s kernel and architecture, while the contents of the /etc/*-release file contains the release information.

linux, tips & tricks, unix

architecture, centos, debian, distribution, fedora, kernel, lsb-release, lsb_release, red hat, redhat-release, release, suse, ubuntu, uname

Checking which processes are accessing the Internet on a Unix machine

26 Oct 2009 3 Comments

The “lsof” Unix command line tool can be used to list the IP Addresses / Host Names and Port details about all processes’ open network files (connections).

connections, host name, internet, ip address, lsof, port, processes

Setting up custom voicemail greetings in Asterisk

15 Oct 2009 2 Comments

Although Trixbox offers a lot of Asterisk customization options through its user interface, setting up custom voicemail greetings for individual extensions isn’t catered for.

asterisk, extension, recording, system recording, trixbox, trunk, voicemail, wav, wave

Getting an iPhone out of the Recovery Mode Loop

12 Aug 2009 16 Comments

Once an iPhone is put into Recovery Mode, it will be stuck in the Recovery Mode Loop (when the device restarts it’ll automatically go back into Recovery Mode).

apple, linux, tips & tricks, tools

featured, home, iphone, irecovery, itunes, loop, macintosh, mode, recovery, sleep / wake, terminal, windows

Getting better Movie and TV Show indexing results with Boxee

11 Aug 2009 0 Comments

These naming conventions will make it easier for Boxee to recognize your Movie or TV Show titles, seasons, and episodes.

apple, linux, tips & tricks, tools

boxee, indexing, media center, metadata, movie, multimedia, osx, subtitle, tv show, ubuntu, video, xbmc

Displaying a text-based file and folder tree on the command line

29 Jul 2009 2 Comments

If you need to see a tree view of files and directories from the current directory, you can do so by piping the output from “ls” into “grep”, then piping the results into “sed”.

command line, directories, files, grep, ls, sed, terminal, tree

Geekology

Managing Background Tasks in the Bash Shell

Sending Tweets from the command line using a Bash script

Checking kernel, architecture, and release (distribution) information on Linux

Checking which processes are accessing the Internet on a Unix machine

Setting up custom voicemail greetings in Asterisk

Getting an iPhone out of the Recovery Mode Loop

Getting better Movie and TV Show indexing results with Boxee

Displaying a text-based file and folder tree on the command line

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