Bash/Linux – Folder Flattening Script (keep X number of subfolders)
A folder flattening script for your files. Takes files and folders in a location & makes the folder tree less deep (if files have same name it will rename a file so thatRead More…
AWK RETURNS ERROR WHEN PRINTF PASSED A VARIABLE WITH PERCENT SIGN %
# echo "thislinehas%allovertheplace%%asdf%%" | awk '{print $0}' thislinehas%allovertheplace%%asdf%% Really quick… the above and below commmand simply tells awk to print the inputed line, so that the output should look as if itRead More…
AWK – convert BYTES to HUMAN READABLE
Use this convertbytes2human function, If you want to convert a number of bytes (for example 43252) or an exponential number number of bytes (such as 1.03e5) to a human readable size. NOTE: sinceRead More…
AWK – missing ABS – Absolute Value
# Awk is missing ABS – absolute value – so we have to make it. # if you want to do: y=abs(x) # you cant just write the above as abs(x) isRead More…
BASH – Seconds to Split Time / Human Readable Converter – Convert seconds to hours, minutes, seconds
This will convert a second into a more feasible number split up into parts of hrs/min/sec (or if you want also days and weeks and years) Provided 5 configurations of this converterRead More…
Solaris interface stats with netstat & ndd
Solaris “ifconfig” and “ifconfig -a” miss out on interesting values like “error” & “drop” etc. netstat and ndd are its replacement in that case # see common stats – usually seen withRead More…