When it's not cool to use PowerShell.
October 10, 2020 —
Jesse Harris
PowerShell is an extremely productive language. The pipeline looping combined with regular expressions and custom objects allow you to quickly build a one-liner that make it tempting to use for data processing. But when it comes to larger data sets, your better off looking to something else.
Defragging files in btrfs - Oneliner
April 10, 2020 —
Jesse Harris
Sometimes, small databasey files get a bit fragmented over time on a COW filesystem. This touch of shell is a goodone to clean them up every now and then.
Ip addresses on your subnet with xargs
September 01, 2018 —
Jesse Harris
xargs strikes again. This time I'm going to use it's parallel
feature to ping 255 machines very quickly. xargs has a parem -Px where x is
the number of parallel processes to spawn of the subsequent process.