Category Archives: unix

Pipe Directories Over SSH

Posted on January 12, 2008 by proj

My good friend Jayk showed me this nifty trick years ago for moving directories over ssh: From a local directory to a remote directory: tar -zcf – . | ssh name@host “tar -zvxf – -C <destination directory>” From a remote … Continue reading →

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The Unix Haters Handbook

Posted on March 29, 2007 by proj

The Unix Haters Handbook was making the rounds on reddit recently. I’ve had it open in a tab and have been occasionaly reading a chapter. I find it very humorous and it’s good to reality check things you take as … Continue reading →

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Exploring ‘Load-Average’

Posted on February 22, 2007 by proj

This is the best exploration of unix ‘load-average‘ that I have ever read. Most commonly in my experience it has been used as a rough metric based on machine quality of load, which is to say, almost completely worthless metric. … Continue reading →

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