Commands by niall

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This is sample output - yours may be different.
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shuf -i 1-49 -n 6 | sort -n | xargs

niall · 2011-01-05 00:07:46 0
Get a list of the erroring cifs entries in fstab

It disturbs me when my logwatch report tells me a share or machine has disappeared, esp as mount isn't telling me what's gone. This command outputs to stderr the erroring cifs entries from fstab. Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
ls: cannot access /shares/01/public: No such device or address
ls: cannot access /shares/01/dev: No such file or directory
ls: cannot access /shares/01/websites: No such device or address
ls: cannot access /shares/01/utils: No such device or address
ls: cannot access /shares/joe: Host is down
```
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ls $(grep cifs /etc/fstab | grep -v ^# |awk ' { print $2 } ') 1>/dev/null

niall · 2010-12-10 09:27:19 1

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Launch a game, like Tetris, when apt-get installing an app larger than 50 Megabytes

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Selecting a random file/folder of a folder

I used only shuf command.

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Using this command you can track a moment when usb device was attached.

rsync with progress bar.

transfer files from localhost to a remotehost.

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