05 Feb 2020
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Secure Keyboard Input in BASH Scripts
Secure keyboard input in BASH I needed to create a very simple bash script that required a password to be provided using keyboard and then used further in the script.
Technical Guides and How-Tos on Linux/Unix and macOS
30 Jan 2020
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Kali Linux 2020.1
Kali Linux 2020.1 This time I’m definitely installing it on my Raspberry Pi 4! Kali Linux just released the very …
29 Jan 2020
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Uninstalling Minikube
Deleting minikube Don’t remember how, but I ended up with two Kubernetes installs on my mcfly desktop with macOS: …
27 Jan 2020
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How to Ignore SSL Warnings in Curl
Ignore SSL warnings in curl Sometimes your testing scenario or cycle is so far ahead of your infrastructure that you …
22 Jan 2020
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Non-Standard Ansible Port
Red Hat Ansible If you plan on starting with Ansible any time soon, one thing you can really appreciate is that prior to …
18 Jan 2020
4 minutes read
Unix Input/Output Redirection
Error Output STDERR Redirection Input/output redirection is a fundamental functionality in Unix and Linux. It’s a …
14 Jan 2020
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Systemd Services Status
Example of systemctl status I’ve just learned by accident that it’s possible to run systemctl status without …
12 Jan 2020
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Use Backups When Deploying With Ansible
Backup flag in the template module I’m back on the task of completely converting my home office and online servers …
11 Jan 2020
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Unix Tutorial - Annual Digest - 2019
Unix Tutorial - Annual Digest As promised, this is my very first annual summary of interesting things in my industry …
03 Jan 2020
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Upgrading Tmux in MacOS
Upgrading to tmux 3.0a I have completely missed the tmux 3.0 release, so it’s long overdue that I’m taking …
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macOS Sonoma 14.0
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Homelab: Mac Pro 2013 32GB
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macOS Sequoia 15.0
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How-To: Upgrade Ubuntu 23.04 to 24.10
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Inspect filesystem operations with fs_usage in macOS
Unless you disable SIP, most of DTrace based …