Tag Archives: Bash

Script to grab sizes of GCP buckets

Posted on August 28, 2024 by Ahmed Tawfik

Prerequisites: For a simple script that just does the job and gets the sizes of all your buckets: For a more comprehensive script that picks a specific set of buckets and saves the output to a file: That’s it, Enjoy!

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What to do when an SSH session hangs because of a network problem

Posted on March 16, 2021 by Ahmed Tawfik

It’s a very basic post, yet still useful! Sometimes when you disconnect from a network or VPN or have any network connectivity problem in general that affects an established SSH connection to any of your servers, the terminal hangs for … Continue reading →

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Script to count number of logged in users to OpenVPN

Posted on April 1, 2020 by Ahmed Tawfik

To get that information you need to query your openvpn-status.log file, which usually resides in /var/log/openvpn/openvpn-status.log. A normal cat will show the following: OpenVPN CLIENT LIST Updated,Wed Mar 5 11:57:51 2019 Common Name,Real Address,Bytes Received,Bytes Sent,Connected Since someuser,someip:55530,100686479,319036434,Tue Mar 5 … Continue reading →

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Touchpad enable/disable script and shortcut on Ubuntu 18.10

Posted on January 29, 2019 by Ahmed Tawfik

If your laptop doesn’t have a working switch for turning on/off your touchpad, then this post is for you. Create a script called disenable_touchpad.sh and add the following code to it: !/bin/bash state=$( gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad send-events ) if [ … Continue reading →

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How to beautify XML text on command line in Ubuntu

Posted on November 19, 2018 by Ahmed Tawfik

sudo apt install libxml2-utils echo ‘your xml stuff here’ | xmllint –format – You will get a beautiful well-organized XML output. Sources: https://jahansyed.co.uk/2016/04/22/how-to-install-xmllint-in-ubuntu/ https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16090869/how-to-pretty-print-xml-from-the-command-line

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