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While Loop bash / shell example

I really like to use this as the bash while loop is a control flow statement that allows code or commands to be executed repeatedly based on a given condition. while [ condition ] do command1 done i run this loop to show my EXIM mailq count every minute while true; do date && echo […]

Skip or Bypass a Fsck on boot

  method 1: Temp: on boot from GRUB Menu selecy kernel line and press e  then add fast boot at the end of the line , press ENTER and Press b  to boot Permanent: /boot/grub/grub.conf Find kernel line and put fastboot at the end of the kernel line. In the end it should look as follow: kernel […]

setup multi default gateway under linux

If you need to configure a linux in different network with different gteway this howto is for you. I present you a solution to do the multi default gateway under linux based on iproute2 commande line. Schema example : Step 1 : Creation of the table definition in iproute2: root# cat /etc/iproute2/rt_tables # reserved values […]

Find files between two dates

To print all the files from 19-10-2007 to 21-11-2007 $ find . -type f -exec ls -l –time-style=full-iso {} \; | awk ‘{print $6,$NF}’ | awk ‘{gsub(/-/,””,$1);print}’ | awk ‘$1>= 20071019 && $1<= 20071121 {print $2}’   and you can combined it with CP to find and copy files

squid: block particular file extension .mp3 block

First open squid.conf file /etc/squid/squid.conf: # vi /etc/squid/squid.conf Now add following lines to your squid ACL section: acl blockfiles urlpath_regex “/etc/squid/multimedia.files.acl” Now create the the file # vi /etc/squid/multimedia.files.acl \.[Ee][Xx][Ee]$ \.[Aa][Vv][Ii]$ \.[Mm][Pp][Gg]$ \.[Mm][Pp][Ee][Gg]$ \.[Mm][Pp]3$ Save and close the file and Restart Squid: # /etc/init.d/squid restart Courtesy: http://linuxpoison.blogspot.tw/2007/10/block-mp3-mpg-mpeg-exe-files-using.html   but Cybercity blog goes one step further […]

linux-unix-find-inode-of-a-file-command

The inode (index node) is a fundamental concept in the Linux and UNIX filesystem. Each object in the filesystem is represented by an inode. But what are the objects? Let us try to understand it in simple words. Each and every file under Linux (and UNIX) has following attributes: => File type (executable, block special etc) => […]

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