System & Network Admin

I explain what a seedbox is, and offer my list of the best seedbox providers.

Is there any tool for headless CLI usage to edit mp4 metadata, preferably without remuxing? I need to edit metadata like, audio/subtitle language tags.

I am trying to get a list of all packages that are installed on my system. For this I call 'rpm -qai' from within a Python-script where further transformations on the output take place. I kind of ...

I am currently trying to get information about my file hosting accounts. As I keep a lot of my backup media on different accounts. I am using megatools to query information about the account, which I

Explains how to delete or remove all leading blank spaces or tabs ( whitespace ) using sed command on Linux, macOS, *BSD and Unix systems.

Guide to Variables in Shell Scripting. Here we discuss the introduction, How to initialize Variables along with working and Examples.

Awk is a general purpose scripting language designed for advanced text processing.

The awk command is a powerful text processing and data manipulation tool in Linux. This detailed tutorial shows how to use awk effectively.

This line worked until I had whitespace in the second field. svn status | grep '\!' | gawk '{print $2;}' > removedProjs is there a way to have awk print everything in $2 or greater? ($3, $4.....

The problem that I'm trying to solve is to produce portable output that I can display on all of the servers in our environment to show basic info at login using generic information on all CentOS / ...

The CPU Information in any machine includes information about the processor, the vendor details, model name, architecture, speed of processing, etc.

In this blog post, we will discuss 3 different ways to check the number of cpu cores in Linux. This is useful information to have if you are trying to optimize your system for performance. Each method has its own advantages and disadvantages, so be sure to read through all of them before choosing the […]

I'm trying to find a short and robust way to put my IP address into a bash variable and was curious if there was an easier way to do this. This is how I am currently doing it: ip=`ifconfig|xargs|...

I want to make big script on my Debian 7.3 ( something like translated and much more new user friendly enviroment ). I have a problem. I want to use only some of the informations that commands give...

Python based scripts for obtaining system information from Linux.

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For those who used apt-get, you know that everytime you install / uninstall something, you get the notificatons saying you need / no longer need certain dependencies. I'm trying to understand the ...

Automate the build process with a Build Dependency Tree

Explains how to loop through a set of files in current or any directory using shell script for loop under UNIX / Linux / macOS.

Recursion in programming is when a piece of code (usually a function) calls itself. If there is no exit case, the program will go on forever. We will be discussing recursion in a bash script with examples and discussing some peculiarities of the bash shell, such as local variables. Setup Let’s make a shell script.…

I want to do a function that will return the factorial of a number in bash Here's the current code that doesn't work, can anyone tell me what's wrong and how to correct it? I just started learning...

Learn how to use command-line arguments inside the bash script

rpm is a powerful Package Manager, which can be used to build, install, query, verify, update, and erase individual software packages.

Learn the most common ways of counting the number of lines of a specified file using Bash

Learn how to inspect and extract RPM package contents with working codes and examples in this article.