A Practical Guide to Linux Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming (3rd Edition)

November 7 2012 by linc in Books |No Comments

Despite the fact that I am actually quoted in this book in the “Praise foe other books by Mark G. Sobell” section, it really is a good book! Scratch that, it is a book that I am going to make *sure* makes the rounds through my office. Here’s the trick. There are a million books […]

Multi-threaded scripts using screen

November 7 2012 by linc in Programming, work |No Comments

Recently I had to do some more email migrations, and I wanted to script them. But how do you take hundreds of migrations and run, say, 15 at a time, scripted, so you don’t beat up your mail server? Good question! What I settled on was writing a bash script to call a certain number […]