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bio website markashields.com
location Atlanta, GA
age 30
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I work for a small business consulting company as their sole system administrator. Previously, I worked for one of the largest web hosting companies in the U.S. as a linux sysadmin.


Jun
6
awarded  Yearling
May
25
awarded  Enlightened
May
24
awarded  Nice Answer
May
23
answered inexact text search
May
17
comment Preload movie on RAM
@Gilles : tmpfs won't overflow into swap; to do this, he'll have to use ramfs, but it kind of defeats the purpose. He may be better off splitting the movie into 2 parts, then loading one part, watching, then loading the 2nd part and watching.
Apr
18
comment using lines of output as an array in bash
If you have an improvement to make, edit the post.
Apr
18
comment How can I look up a username by id in linux?
@choroba : if he had a specific requirement for LDAP or NIS, he probably would have mentioned it. My solution works on typical linux setups.
Apr
17
answered using lines of output as an array in bash
Apr
17
comment Route incoming network requests for a given port to different applications
Upvoted. To add a little, he's better off using an init script that starts the other app when his app isn't running, and stops it when it is.
Apr
17
answered How can I look up a username by id in linux?
Apr
16
answered Process not working when executed in background inside shell script
Mar
25
revised Add character to beginning and end of column
deleted 2 characters in body
Mar
25
answered Add character to beginning and end of column
Mar
10
comment Bash script error trying to find directory of script itself: unexpected end of file
Why not just re-use $PWD ? (not worth an 'answer')
Mar
6
answered What distribution for light weight server?
Feb
11
comment How do I find out what hard disks are in the system?
Use fdisk -l /dev/sd? or fdisk -l /dev/hd? to avoid bring in dm devices.
Feb
6
comment Doing simple math on the command line using bash functions: $1 divided by $2 (using bc perhaps)
Using double parentheses to evaluate math expressions is deprecated. Use: $[expression] instead
Jan
27
answered How to add/replace only modified/updated files recursively for some 2 folders?
Jan
22
revised Move /usr to SSD
Changed 'copy' directive to use rsync instead. Preserves permissions, ownership, timestamps, etc.
Jan
22
suggested suggested edit on Move /usr to SSD