Everything I learned about linux and other shit, in the last two weeks.

I've moved for a job, three times in my life. The most recently being two weeks ago. Loneliness is a huge issue. I'm the worst kind of introvert. The one     that needs attention now and again. Besides developing the worst OKCupid strategey ever, I have done very little to combat this. To quote Charle's Bukowski,  "You get so alone at times that it just makes sense".

I know I haven't posted a lot in the last two weeks, I'm still settling in.  I updated linosh. I'm going to use it to make an auto-scaling tool for Linode.

I'm almost done with a let's get weird post, and I might post my terrible OKCupid strategy.


Some one liners for you, I've used at home and during work in the past two weeks:

Total Ram:
free -m | grep "Mem:" | grep -o -P "Mem:\s+\d+" | grep -o -P "\d+"
OR
cat /proc/meminfo | grep MemTotal | awk '{print $2}'

Available Ram:
free -m | grep "buffers/" | awk -F"[:space:]+" '{print $5}' | grep -o -P "\d+$"
OR
cat /proc/meminfo | grep MemAvailable | awk '{print $2}'

Kill steam mac:

kill -9 $(ps aux |grep team |awk '{print $2}')

Check for github on /r/linuxadmin/new

clear;while true; do curl https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxadmin/new/ |perl -ne'print"$1\n\n"if/(github)/'; sleep 180; done;

Stupid nix trix: Finger me write, how to talk to someone on a diffrent tty in *nix

You can communicate to other users on your *nix box using write. While at the command prompt you can type:

$write username

Where username is the name of the user, such as root or bsdpunk.

If multiple of the same user are logged in you can specify the tty you want to use.

Use the finger command to find out what tty the other user is on.
$finger

Under finger in a bsd enviroment you will see something like p4 under tty.

$write username tty

The username may be root or bsdpunk or something and the tty if as listed above will be ttyp4.

Ubuntu Blog

So I was stumbling around to alternative to killall and I found this guys ubuntu blog, or should I say ubuntune? Anyways, it looks like he hasn't posted since the 18th so I don't know if it is stale or not. But he has some ubuntu and some java stuff on there so, check it out.