My First Bash-Completion Script

By golly, I’ve finally done it!  I love bash completion and must have it on any shell-based device I own.  I’ve written countless numbers of scripts but for the most part, they’re fairly self-contained — with the exception of the “perms” script.  This script is nice and quick on a one-site box where I can […]

Linux: Make grep FAST

I’m a searcher. I always grep for things. I use fun commands like: vim -p `grep -lR xyz .` Which finds all files containing xyz and automatically opens them as tabs in vim ( doesn’t work too well when a ton of files are found though 😉 ). At times however, grep’s just… a bit […]

Linux: SSH Strong Public/Private Key Using ssh-keygen

I’ve come to love encryption. My Linux boxes all do not allow password-authentication for SSL and instead use public authentication. I don’t use a standard 1024 or 2048 bit key, I use… a… 16384 bit key.. yeah.. that crazy dude’s the highest ssh-keygen will allow :). If you decide to be as crazy as I […]