by Satish Kumar | Jan 25, 2021 | Linux
Running as root is dangerous, although sometimes convenient—especially when you are new to Linux and password prompts seem to be a hassle. So far, as a Linux user, you may have seen the sudo command or the su command. These commands can allow a user to change users on...
by Satish Kumar | Jan 24, 2021 | BASH
Leading up to getting our scripts to run as daemons, we need to know how to keep commands running after a user logs off (or better yet, have them started by the system itself (we will look at this in more detail later). When a user logs in, a session for that user is...
by Satish Kumar | Jan 23, 2021 | BASH
This is great for single use scripts, but what about if we wanted to have scripts execute multiple scripts through a menu, or perform tasks in the background automatically forever without being executed each time by scheduling processes (like cron)? This recipe...
by Satish Kumar | Jan 22, 2021 | BASH
Usually, data that mimics real-world data is always the best, but sometimes we need an assortment of files of various content and size for validation testing without delay. Imagine that you have a web server and it is running some sort of application that accepts...
by Satish Kumar | Jan 21, 2021 | BASH
Let’s not be shy! Who has tried to open a large file by accident or even intentionally with an application and it didn’t quite go as planned? I certainly have, and I have certainly seen the limitations such as the number of rows loaded in Excel, or...
