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How to append values to an array in bash
Feb 4th
Last week I was working on a bash script for a project at work. The script parsed through a log file with server load and disk usage statistics at regular intervals. The script was calculating the average CPU idle time, disk utilization, and disk usage for servers. After calculating the averages for each of these three metrics, I then proceeded to loop through all the lines in the file and create an array of all the times when the CPU idle time was below average, or the disk utilization or usage was above average.
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How to Post to Twitter from a Linux Shell
Jun 18th
I had a little downtime today and work and decided to write a shell script that I could use to tweet from the shell of my Linux server. The reason is that Twitter is one of many social networking sites that is blocked at my workplace. However, I do have access to my server and found a great one-liner on commandlinefu.com to update twitter via curl. I decided to expand on this a bit and wrote a shell script that offers a bit more than merely posting a tweet. Check out my shell script to post to Twitter here.
How to Create a File of a Specific Size on Linux
Jun 16th
I was doing some testing the other night of a web-based file uploader I had built into one of the websites I had developed. The website is hosted on a GoDaddy.com shared hosting account
and allows my client to upload images, videos, and documents to her website directly through the browser. We had been running into a problem though with some files not uploading properly and I had a feeling it had to do with PHP limits imposed by the server. Even though I had raised the limits in a php.ini file, I thought those might be getting overwritten by the server.
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