Author: bignick

Watch is a command on Linux that will repeatedly run commands for you, and it offers some very useful options. One of its basic options is that you can tell watch how long to wait before running the specified command again. For example, if you run the command watch -n 10 date, the watch command will first clear the screen… Continue reading Using The Watch Command On Linux | Network World

There are only a few special characters involved in working with character strings on the command line or in a script on Linux: the single quote, the double quote and the backslash. But the rules aren’t as obvious as one might think. In this post, we’ll look at the easy and the somewhat tricky uses… Continue reading The Simplicity And Complexity Of Using Quotes On Linux | Network World

Redundancy is essential for dealing with both planned and unplanned outages, and that includes having redundant dynamic host-configuration protocol (DHCP) servers to allow uninterrupted dynamic assignment of IP addresses. For those working in Windows environments, there are currently two options for setting up redundant DHCP servers: a failover scenario with a main server paired with… Continue reading How To Set Up Dhcp Failover On Windows Server | Network World

The cd command makes it easy to switch to another directory on Liniux, but only if you know where you’re heading. In this post, I discuss a couple of tricks for moving between known locations and provide a script for finding and “remembering” files or locations that you might want to reuse. One of the… Continue reading How To Find Files On Linux And Make It Easy To Find Them Again | Network World