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Get, monitor and remove the last N lines of a file in Linux

Listing and monitoring the last N lines of a log file is a common and familiar operational practice mostly to System Administrators and SRE engineers. Surely, there are better ways to...

In Linux, Parsing, Jan 11, 2023

How to install sshpass on macOS

Trying to install sshpass on macOS by executing brew install sshpass I get stuck with the following message:Warning: No available formula with the name "sshpass". Did you mean sshs?We...

In macOS, Jan 10, 2023

Extract XML tags and values from the CLI using sed

Extracting certain tags and values using XML is not something we do on a daily basis. In my case, I had to figure out how to extract all DevCoops blog posts titles using the sitemap.x...

In Parsing, Jan 09, 2023

How to install smartctl on macOS

Getting some of your macOS system preferences can be easily achieved with smartmontools. Let’s see how to install smartctl on macOS.

In macOS, Jan 08, 2023

head: illegal line count on macOS

Yesterday, I’ve received the following error: head: illegal line count -- -4 as I was trying to remove the last 4 lines from a sitemap.xml file. This is called negative arguments. It ...

In Parsing, Jan 07, 2023

How to Install ufw on Ubuntu 22.04

Usually, Ubuntu comes with a pre-installed ufw firewall. But in some cases like using the Ubuntu docker image or Ubuntu server-based images can be an exception and you might see that ...

In Ubuntu, Jan 06, 2023

Simple CLI command to extract URLs from the sitemap.xml file

I wanted to do some analytics automation so, at first I needed to pull a list of all blog post links (URLs) from the sitemap.xml file. And here’s what I came up with.

In Parsing, Jan 05, 2023

How to Install Redis on Ubuntu 22.04

As the need for application caching is ramping up, Redis is getting more and more used. That’s why I decided to show you how to install Redis on Ubuntu 22.04.

In Redis, Ubuntu, Jan 04, 2023

10 Vim commands to start with

Vim (VI IMproved), as a common text editor based on Vi, since the early 90s cause headaches to every beginner and junior Ops engineer out there, whatever is a DevOps, SysOps, Cloud Ad...

In Vim, Jan 03, 2023

Install Wget on Ubuntu 22.04

In case wget is not installed on your latest Ubuntu version 22.04 it will throw the following error wget: command not found. Today I will show you how to install wget on Ubuntu 22.04 ...

In Wget, Ubuntu, Jan 02, 2023