So you have a group files with an unuseful name for another program or service you are using and you want to rename the whole group. Here is the solution: renamer.sh #!/bin/bash # renames.sh # basic file renamer criteria=$1 re_match=$2 replace=$3 for i in $( ls *$criteria* ); do src=$i tgt=$(echo $i | sed -e…
Bash is as useful as you are able to manipulate your hand-off. Some of us like one-liners, heck, we love one liners. This isn’t one of those, this requires you to make a script file and then punch it. It works using layered loops and some process substitution. You have to cd to the dir…
This is a script I have developed to back up my hosting environment, and it actually consists of two. One to be started by cron, and then it starts the other. This allows for a modular setup between your environments (apache/nginx/etc). The scripts: backup.sh #!/bin/bash # Web Host Backup # Cron Version # Jim McKibben…
This is the SSH part where you connect to the remote system and send a local port back to you: ssh -L 5900:localhost:5900 -p altsshport user@domain.com What can you do with this? You can run a service on your remote system like this: x11vnc -display :0 -localhost On newer Xubuntu systems, you might have to…
Below I will post some useful Linux Bash or *ash similar command code. Some of these will seem trivial to those that know and to the rest, will hopefully be future cheat sheet material. Commands: [ctrl]-r = search bash history for entered string [ctrl]-k = delete all characters to the end of the line [ctrl]-u…
