Monthly Archives: May 2015

How to get readable output from df on HP-UX

df -Pk | awk ‘ BEGIN {print “Filesystem Mount Point Total GB Avail GB Used GB Used” print “———————————– ————————- ———- ———- ———- —–“} END {print “”} /dev/ || /^[0-9a-zA-Z.]*:\// { printf (“%-35.35s %-25s %10.2f %10.2f %10.2f %4.0f%\n”,$1,$6,$2/1024/1024,$4/1024/1024,$3/1024/1024,$5) }’

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How to tell if a system is virtual or physical (linux)

sudo dmidecode |grep “Product Name:” |head -1 If the above command doesn’t work: dmidecode |grep -i “vm” will return nothing on a virtual system and something like “VME (Virtual mode extension)” on a host system.

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Analyzing kernel core dumps on Red Hat

On a Red Hat system, look for the crash command: http://magazine.redhat.com/2007/08/15/a-quick-overview-of-linux-kernel-crash-dump-analysis/

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Rough comparison of BASH and Kornshell

• BASH is much easier to set a prompt that displays the current directory. To do the same in Kornshell is hackish. • Kornshell has associative arrays and BASH doesn’t. Now, the last time I used Associative arrays was… Let … Continue reading

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