I generallly keep doing this a lot, so thought will share with you. Lets assume we are capturing free ouput every min/hour/or whatever. The output looks like this: […] Time: Mon Jan 21 23:59:10 …

Sometimes some simple one-liner function can save you a lot of time, like-

Lot of times, I want to find the directories with maximum number of files and so I wrote this quick function to do exactly the same

When moving large files/directories, I would like to see the progress. Idea for this is to use rsync with progress and remove source files. But that option does not remove the empty directories left …

I find myself doing this lot of times so thought will share this with you all. Basically, once I want to clear out the directory, I first want to find out the sub-directory using the maximum disk …

If you have no other option but to use telnet with authentication to send mail 🙂

I find myself doing google everytime I want to search for port number mapping. So, here is a short script to do just that 🙂

How many times you have felt that there was some simple way to convert bash ansi escape sequences ( colors as well in terminal ) to html equivalent so that you can send the same as html report in …

So, I have a few dockers. Every now and then I want to run some command on all of them. Doing ‘docker exec’ is tiresome. I found this neat solution with ansible that I thought I should share with you. …

Just in case, you are looking for backing up your trello account boards, you can use the following bash script to do so: #!/bin/bash - …

If you are doing some scripting and using ‘time’ command, then you know sometimes it becomes difficult to capture the output as the output would be something like this: : amit ; time ls real 0m0.002s …

Some times I need random string, for example to use as email seperator or to use in some API. One way is to use tools like /dev/[u]random or od and other such. But they seem cubersome after I figured …