I never quite remember it – extracting a specific file from tar archive

I always forget, and this blog is meant to help me remember. Found in Tar’s manual, are these simple directives: Have a file called file.tar, do: tar -xf file.tar full/path/without/trailing/slashes It can be a file or directory. You can have a list of files, such: tar -xf file.tar home/me home/you home/us/important-file Should do the trick.

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Quick and dirty delete old files, with exclude list and support for filenames with spaces

Here’s a little script I’ve written which deletes older than AGE days files, and has an exclude list, just in case. It’s meant to be run by cron on a daily basis: #!/bin/sh # Source of all evil DIR=/ftp # Age of file in days AGE=10 # Exclude list – Use pipe (|) seperated values….

Windows Genuine Validation for Corporate

In Corporate environment, when by mistake you install the WGA Validation update of late, you will be nagged about activating your Windows. A solution I’ve found for this from the comments in this web site, suggested the following: %windir%system32wgatray.exe /u Remove the following Registry tree: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindows NTCurrentVersionWinlogonNotifyWgaLogon After reboot, you will not get the nagging…