Quite often I find myself looking for files which contain the same text. Mainly config settings, etc. On linux you…

I’ve used openvpn on Mac (using Tunnelblick) for a few years for a home->work VPN connection with no issues, and…

If you need to backup your SVN repositories, then you can use this bash script to do so: #!/bin/bash DATE=`date…

There is a very useful command in Linux, called grep. It is a utility for searching plain text files using…

To run a scan on the port status on a Linux box, you can use the Nmap tool: nmap -sT…

I use the openvpn command line to connect to a certain VPN site, and I get annoyed at having to…

So you want to have your password remembered by a remote SSH connection? Easy, following these steps On your local…

I have a particular Linux set up I need to test something on, but I use a Mac, so I…

For a nice VM I needed a Linux server, but no need for a GUI, so went for CentOS. Installed…

I found that a script I was running was calling some linux functions using exec() but they weren’t always successful…