During my saga to upgrade my computing, I lost access to my desktop server. IT Services confirmed that I had an old version of openssh, so I upgraded it. Unfortunately, my Ubuntu OS was from 2016 and its build of openssh cannot be upgraded to the newest one, so I have to upgrade. I have to upgrade […]
When I was a graduate student, my advisor needed an AWS server. Wanting the experience to improve my computer knowledge, I volunteered. The learning curve was steep, but I got it to work, and I learned a lot about the nuts and bolts of computers. I eventually managed the infrastructure for several years, including after graduating. I appreciated the […]
This note is for a very simple use case: you want to remove a bunch of files from your Linux system but “bunch” is more than the system will accept, so you are given an error that the “argument list is too long”. This Stack Overflow answer was very helpful: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11289551/argument-list-too-long-error-for-rm-cp-mv-commands. For my specific case, […]
This post details a pretty simple Linux task but it is one I will need to use frequently as my server fills up, so I am documenting it so I do not have to continue googling. The specific task is to find files greater than a certain size and created more than a certain number […]
One of my hard drives is down to its final terabyte, of 8, so its time for me to compress some files. Since I have thousands of files on that drive, it would be inefficient to select them one by one. It turns out its easy to pass a bunch of files to gzip. I […]
This entry is a reminder for myself more than anything, as it documents a very popular SO answer that is one of the first returns from Google when searching “nohup multiple out files”. nohup.out is a file created automatically when you use type “nohup” in a bash terminal. (“nohup” is short for “no hangup”, which […]
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