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By Greg Nowak , 10 February, 2022
Illustrated infographic summarizing: Delete Files and Folders Older Than X days

Delete Files and Folders Older Than X days

find /[FOLDER_NAME]/* -mtime +[OLDER_THAN_DAYS] -exec rm -rf {} \;

Example deletes all files and folders in tmp folder that are older than 180 days: find /tmp/* -mtime +180 -exec rm -rf {} \;

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  • bash
  • Script
  • Linux
By Greg Nowak , 23 September, 2021
Illustrated infographic summarizing: Ubuntu Logs Journalctl and Dmesg

Ubuntu Logs Journalctl and Dmesg

You can see a lot of good information for debugging and fixing errors on your Ubuntu server with journalctl and dmesg

journalctl --since "1 days ago"

journalctl --since "10 hours ago"

journalctl --since "12 hours ago" -p 3 -x --utc --no-pager

dmesg | less

dmesg -H --time-format iso| less

Resources:

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/50098/linux-network-troublesho…

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  • Linux
  • logistics
  • Script
By Greg Nowak , 22 September, 2021
Illustrated infographic summarizing: Bash Find and Delete Files Older Than X Days

Bash Find and Delete Files Older Than X Days

find [FOLDER_NAME]/* -prune -mtime +14 -exec rm {} \;

Tags

  • Script
  • Linux
By Greg Nowak , 11 August, 2021
Illustrated infographic summarizing: SystemD Notes Tips and Tricks

SystemD Notes Tips and Tricks

A nice little guide: https://tecadmin.net/run-shell-script-as-systemd-service/

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  • Linux
  • Script
By Greg Nowak , 17 July, 2021
Illustrated infographic summarizing: Ubuntu Select Touch Device

Ubuntu Select Touch Device

Quick note: xinput map-to-output 11 eDP

I have a thinkpad laptop with a touchscreen. When I connect my external screen, then the touch sensor on my laptop screen moves the cursor on the external screen, which is not what I want. I want to keep my touch on my laptop screen.

I followed the instructions here: https://askubuntu.com/questions/51445/how-do-i-calibrate-a-touchscreen-…

First run:

xinput

Output:

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  • Linux
  • screen
  • Script
By Greg Nowak , 9 July, 2021
Illustrated infographic summarizing: Handling Multibyte Characters And Strings In R Project

Handling Multibyte Characters And Strings In R Project

If you encounter this problem when reading csv-files, you might want to try to change the encoding from UTF-8 to latin1. This worked for me when using the tolower function in R.

Pretty nice solution here with gsub (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38828620/how-to-remove-strange-char…):

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  • Script
  • rscript
  • rstudio
By Greg Nowak , 9 June, 2021
Illustrated infographic summarizing: HTTRACK and wayback machine

HTTRACK and wayback machine

https://www.httrack.com/

https://gist.github.com/adliwahid/8256ab77cf585a249c215e8f831efbd4

https://superuser.com/questions/532036/trouble-using-wget-or-httrack-to…

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  • Script
  • Web
By Greg Nowak , 25 April, 2021
Illustrated infographic summarizing: Run process in the background Linux

Run process in the background Linux

To detach a process started in the terminal, you can always add & at the end. For example: npm run evaluation &

Or: nohup bash script.bash &

After that you can run "jobs", to see the running jobs for that user.

Otherwise you can use "htop" or "ps -ef |grep bash" to find all bash jobs for instance.

References:

https://www.dev2qa.com/how-to-run-node-js-server-in-background/

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  • Script
  • Linux
By Greg Nowak , 10 April, 2021
Illustrated infographic summarizing: Wget The Non-Interactive Network Downloader Tips and Tricks

Wget The Non-Interactive Network Downloader Tips and Tricks

Many times you need to download files from the internet, specifically when you want to automate a process or two. Here is where wget comes in handy. This is a standard tool on most Linux systems.

In some cases the server you want to download from does a couple of checks, so your automation fails. You can come by that by adding a couple of switches like:

wget --user-agent="Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/51.0.2704.103 Safari/537.36" --auth-no-challenge URL_OF_FILE_TO_DOWNLOAD

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  • Linux
  • Script
By Greg Nowak , 17 March, 2021
Illustrated infographic summarizing: SoapUI

SoapUI

SoapUI is a smart and advanced open source tool to test APIs.

Notes and Resources

Generate Sample XML using a WSDL in SOAP UI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btS84mlJeNo

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12222607/how-to-do-a-soap-wsdl-web-…

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  • Script

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Illustrated infographic summarizing: From Supplier Invoice to Bookkeeping: AI with a Control Checkpoint
From Supplier Invoice to Bookkeeping: AI with a Control Checkpoint
2026-08-18

AI can reduce the work involved in processing supplier invoices, but reliable bookkeeping requires validation, duplicate checks, approval and a clear audit trail.

Illustrated infographic summarizing: Nginx 1.30 Changed the Upstream Defaults—Test Before You Upgrade
Nginx 1.30 Changed the Upstream Defaults—Test Before You Upgrade
2026-08-17

Nginx 1.30 defaults upstream proxying to HTTP/1.1 with keepalive enabled. Here is what to inspect, model and test before upgrading.

Illustrated infographic summarizing: OpenAI’s Assistants API Shuts Down in Ten Days. Is Your App Ready?
OpenAI’s Assistants API Shuts Down in Ten Days. Is Your App Ready?
2026-08-16

OpenAI’s Assistants API shuts down on August 26, 2026. Learn what to inventory, how to preserve state and how to cut over without breaking the product.

Illustrated infographic summarizing: WordPress 7.1 Forces the Editor Into an iframe—Test Your Custom Blocks
WordPress 7.1 Forces the Editor Into an iframe—Test Your Custom Blocks
2026-08-15

WordPress 7.1 removes the non-iframe editor fallback. Learn how to audit custom blocks, test real workflows and fix compatibility issues before launch.

Illustrated infographic summarizing: GitHub will stop sending jobs to stale self-hosted runners
GitHub will stop sending jobs to stale self-hosted runners
2026-08-14

GitHub starts enforcing runner versions on August 24, 2026. Audit and upgrade self-hosted runners before builds and deployments start stalling.

Illustrated infographic summarizing: Your AI Agent Has Shell Access. What Can It Reach?
Your AI Agent Has Shell Access. What Can It Reach?
2026-08-13

A practical guide to mapping what a shell-enabled AI agent can reach, then containing its access to files, credentials, networks, tools, and high-impact actions.

Illustrated infographic summarizing: Cloudflare Changed DoH JSON. What Else Is Parsing DNS as Text?
Cloudflare Changed DoH JSON. What Else Is Parsing DNS as Text?
2026-08-12

Cloudflare’s DoH JSON change exposes brittle DNS parsing. Find affected scripts, test both formats, and choose a safer integration contract.

Illustrated infographic summarizing: Your Website Can Answer Questions Now. Should It?
Your Website Can Answer Questions Now. Should It?
2026-08-11

NLWeb makes conversational website search practical to deploy. The real question is whether your content, users and team are ready to support it.

Illustrated infographic summarizing: AI Search Finally Has Reports. Now Connect Visibility to Revenue
AI Search Finally Has Reports. Now Connect Visibility to Revenue
2026-08-11

Google and Bing now expose first-party AI search data. The real task is connecting citations and impressions to analytics, CRM outcomes, and revenue.

Illustrated infographic summarizing: The Bot Passed Your CAPTCHA. What Did It Do Next?
The Bot Passed Your CAPTCHA. What Did It Do Next?
2026-08-11

Passing a challenge is only one signal. Session analysis, server-side validation and endpoint-specific controls help reduce bot abuse without blocking customers.

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