I’m getting a bit more into elasticsearch and I’ve started up a github project to contain some of work. This project will be similar to mmo: Python library for MongoDB and can be found at emo. The project will again be in python and will basically be a bunch of methods for exploring and managing […]

I’ve been reviewing a few things I do and decided I need to be a bit smarter about managing backups. I currently purge by date only. Which is fine if everything is working and checked regularly. I wouldn’t want to return from a two week holiday to find my backups had been failing, nobody checked […]

Way back in 2009 I wrote a post about how to display progress bars in Powershell. The same thing is possible in bash with pv. If it’s not available in your shell just do… ?View Code BASHyum install pv Or equivalent for your platform. The following example compresses a file into a tar archive reporting […]

I’ve finally taken the plunge and committed, to untarring and compiling, a bucket load of source code to complete Linux from Scratch. I’ll be documenting some of my setup here. I’m far from an expert, that’s why I’m doing this, but if you have any constructive criticism I’d be glad to hear it. I’m using […]

Here’s a neat little trick I learned today I thought was worth sharing. Sometimes I want to highlight text in a terminal screen using grep but without filtering other lines out. Here’s how you do it… ?View Code BASHmysqlbinlog mysql-bin.000473 | grep –color -E ‘^|not closed’; The important part is the regexp in grep. The […]