The do it yourself way!
A couple of days ago I had to install a Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP) Server on a Centos 5.6 distribution (was a favor for a friend). In this case it is used to create a simple Virtual Private Network (VPN) to tunnel all the traffic through the server’s internet connection. 1. Make sure that you …
Browsing the web, I found this funny new video 😉
Today I’m going to show you a nice way to sync only specific files from user directories to a “fast speed download” server. Basically, all my users upload resources (maps, sounds, models, etc) for a Counter Strike 1.6 Server through FTP. The issue was the fact that all these files had to be copied to …
This post will be related to the use of grep, sed, and awk to process text streams and files.
GREP
Is a command searches a file for lines containing a match to the given strings and prints the matching lines.
It is mainly used in the following combinations:
grep 'some string' given_file cat given_file | grep 'some string' command | grep 'some string'