Re: [PLUG] PLUG W Follow-up

On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 12:41 AM, JP Vossen <jp@jpsdomain.org> wrote:

First, thanks to David for the really interesting AWS talk, I know I
learned a lot. I also just read the last 10 posts in
http://tech.dcolon.org/wordpress/ too, some neat stuff!

Thank you to PLUG West for having me. I really enjoyed doing the presentation but wish that I could have completed the demo. If there is interest, I can tweak the presentation for time and present it at PLUG Central or West.

There's a bash Cookbook recipe similar to your rename one, but you don't
need 'basename' or 'awk'. See
https://www.safaribooksonline.com/library/view/bash-cookbook/0596526784/ch17.html
or for more of it search 'bash cookbook "renaming many files"' in Google
books.

For the LVM one you might like the 'seq' command or just {1..15}. (Oh,
you used 'seq' in the BIND file post. :)

Renaming many files is one of the interview questions that I frequently use. The beauty of unix is that there are many ways to accomplish a task.

Something that didn't come up but is relevant to some of the discussions
is the ability to read and write from the clipboard. Not sure how to do
this on a Mac, but on Debian/Ubuntu/Mint:

$ sudo apt-get install xsel
$ alias gc='xsel -b' # GetClip
$ alias pc='xsel -bi' # PutClip
$ gc | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head | pc # Top-10 list

On the mac you can use pbcopy and pbpaste:

sr35a:~ dcolon$ echo foobar | pbcopy

sr35a:~ dcolon$ pbpaste

foobar

sr35a:~ dcolon$

That reminds me of another problem that I encountered, and blogged about, with copy/paste under Linux. I had the worst time getting copy/paste working with Keepass under Linux. I eventually found autocutsel and that fixed my problem. Read about it here:

http://tech.dcolon.org/wordpress/copy-and-paste-for-keepass-under-linux/

David