Tag Archives: command

ack: grep but better!

Posted on September 22, 2008 by Samuel Huckins

I came across ack today, and now grep is sleeping outside. It’s very much like grep, except it assumes all the little things that you always wanted grep to remember, but that it never did. It actually left the light … Continue reading →

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Needs more cow…say!

Posted on July 16, 2008 by Samuel Huckins

I stumbled across a wonderful program today: cowsay! It is just as cool as you would imagine: 1cowsay "Text" gives you an ASCII art cow saying your Text. I think I will use it as the welcome banner on all … Continue reading →

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Handy Network Utilities: nast, fping

Posted on July 10, 2008 by Samuel Huckins

I discovered a wonderful utility last night: nast. I wanted to scan my local network, just to see what devices were on it, what their addresses were, etc. I could ping my entire subnet, but what if I had a … Continue reading →

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Reference script for CLI color codes

Posted on October 31, 2007 by Samuel Huckins

I have been experimenting with adding more color to my bash prompts of late. I find it easier to read when the fields are in distinct colors. The problem I always have is remembering what those wonderfully obscure ANSI escape … Continue reading →

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View compressed log files easily

Posted on October 30, 2007 by Samuel Huckins

Any linux distribution around these days will have compression and rotation in place for files in 1/var/log (or wherever else they happen to go). So if you look in there, you will see one or two log files (current and … Continue reading →