There are so many ways to slice, dice, parse, and of course search through files in Linux. This is but one of those ways. What makes this method fancy is that it we go from finding and printing contents of all the files found to listing the columns related to Read more…
So you’re facing a system or security audit and you need to quickly print a list of accounts for the auditor as well as their statuses. Depending on your setup, this could be a trivial task. In other cases, especially with a passwd instance that doesn’t support the -a option, Read more…
When you run a removal command in Linux with the recursive and force options enabled (rm -rf *), you don't expect to get back a failure message. After all, YOU FORCED IT! However, it just so happens that even with force, you can encounter a situation where the list of Read more…
I needed to create a user, grant them super user sudo privileges, update user account passwords and expire them across a number of different servers so that the actual user could log in and be forced to change their password to a (hopefully) secure one after I was complete. Initially, Read more…
This is quite the little zinger from time to time so I thought I would jot down a quick post on it, mainly for my memory, and for anyone else who might be looking for a similar solution. For example, when you run the following, you could be required to Read more…
This is always a handy set of commands to have laying around. There are many sites that provide the same info, but I use it often enough that I thought I would put it up to have it handy for me as well. If you accidentally reset a bunch of Read more…
I needed to come up with this and it took me a bit to find the simplest solution so I thought I would share it. Please note that this is a Linux solution. Problem: You have one line in a multi line file that contains a character (or set of Read more…