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  1. Easy File Transfer with OpenSSH

    Today I learned that OpenSSH allows you to easily transfer files on a local network! I've started setting up some home network stuff to learn how "the cloud" works better and was pleasantly surprised how easy this was.

    Setup

    OpenSSH is the de-facto standard for remote access via ssh. So …

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  2. Restoring a user, practical Linux

    I am no Linux guru, but usually if I went to get something done I am able to. In this post, I will document how I solved a particular problem in a fast and easy way.

    Problem: I really broke my system

    I had a pretty old computer running Arch …

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  3. Creating a swap file

    Using old hardware, having swap space in addition to RAM can make your computer operate more smoothly.

    From a fresh 'buntu Install

    After a fresh Lubuntu on an old machine (with only 2 GB of RAM), I followed the directions on "Create a Linux swap file" (Rackspace 2018) to create …

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  4. Practical Shell Scripting, Part 3

    In this post, we will introduce xargs, which allows you to pass in arguments to a command via standard input.

    For example, to do

    echo "$HOME" | xargs ls -la
    

    is like doing

    ls "$HOME" -la
    

    We can think of xargs as a kind of "keyword" or "syntactic feature" of shell …

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  5. Practical Shell Scripting, Part 2

    In this post I will discuss a relatively straightforward command: cat. The cat command is used to concatenate files. So if I had three files, I could do something like

    cat file1.txt file2.txt file3.txt
    

    ...and this would display the concatenated content of all these files to standard …

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  6. Practical Shell Scripting, Part 1

    In this series of articles, I will document how I do various things using shell scripts1. My basic approach is to use bash to automate stuff by documenting and replicating steps that I take on the Command Line Interface (CLI) 2.

    Preliminary things

    It is assumed the reader has …

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  7. Why LARBS?

    In my Arch Linux Install for n00bs I gave details on how to install Arch linux and then suggested LARBS as a way to get up and running with your new installation. In this article I detail why I find LARBS particularly useful and address some points brought up by …

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  8. Getting Comfortable with Linux

    Updated 8/14/2019

    This tutorial

    This tutorial aims to answer this question:

    Now that I have a Linux system running, how do I go about learning more?

    This tutorial is aimed at eager beginners and aspiring computer users that have decided to take control of their computing. It largely …

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