Archive for February 3rd, 2011
find/xargs/grep tricks
Posted by Kyle Lexmond in Uncategorized on February 3, 2011
Because xargs will die if you have an unescaped quote, but using -0 screws everything up if you’re reading a list of files: sed s/\’/\\\\\’/|cut -d \: -f 1|xargs -i rm “{}” The sed pattern will put the escape character in front of any single quotes so that xargs doesn’t screw up. Using md5sum to […]
Allowing password-less SSH logins
Posted by Kyle Lexmond in Uncategorized on February 3, 2011
Because I don’t care too much about what happens to my test servers, I’ve been setting up password-less SSH logins. Using a Linux system to login is trivial, because it’s a simple matter of doing ssh-keygen on the system that will be connecting to the remote server, and just hitting enter until the key is […]