Commands by hugme (2)

  • kvm disk info

    This will strip out the relivent disk information from kvm. I'm using it to find disks on a SAN which are no longer in use. Show Sample Output


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    while read X ; do printf "$X --"; virsh dumpxml $X | egrep "source dev|source file"; done< <(virsh list | awk '$1 ~ /^[1-9]/ { print $2 }')
    hugme · 2013-07-29 17:32:59 1213
  • Resize images with mogrify with lots of options

    The find command can do this on it's own. This is a shorter faster version, it also includes more advanced regex (it will find .Jpg etc). Find doesn't need a pipe, you can run it directly from the command.


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    find . -name '*.[Jj][Pp][Gg]' -exec mogrify -resize 1024">" -quality 40 {} \;
    hugme · 2013-06-21 13:27:25 7

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