Anthony Heddings

Git is a powerful tool for tracking each version of your codebase, and it’s often necessary to look back in time and recover old versions of files. Git can revert whole commits, or reset the entire repository, but it can also…

Reverse proxies are a useful tool in any system administrator’s toolkit. They have a lot of uses, including load balancing, protection from DDOS attacks

grep is a powerful text searching utility on Linux, but it isn’t available on Windows. While there are third party ports and solutions, PowerShell offers built-in equivalents to grep that will do the same job in your script…

The File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is a common service used to transfer files between clients and servers. It’s often useful to automate these file transfers, and PowerShell scripts can come in handy to speed up this process….

Linux’s grep utility is a favorite among many sysadmins for its simple searching ability and familiar syntax. It’s not available on Windows however, so you’ll have to either use alternatives, or install third-party grep too…

grep is a great tool for searching through files and standard input in Linux and is able to match string and Regex patterns. However, sometimes it’s necessary to control what kinds of files grep searches for, and it has fla…

Working with archives is a common task in Linux, but sometimes, you may not know what the contents of the archive look like. If you want to take a peek at the inside of a ZIP or TAR file without extracting it, there are tools…

grep is a command line text searching utility that is able to find patterns and strings in files and other types of input. Most matches will match on one line only, but it’s often useful to match across multiple new lines….

Everything in Linux is stored in directories, and when writing bash scripts, it’s often useful to search for directories by name. Luckily, you can use the find command to recursively search directory names and display matche…

grep is a search utility for finding strings and patterns in files and console input. By default, it prints the line that contains the match, but it’s also useful to print out the preceding lines around a match for context….

grep is a text search utility that can work with standard input or multiple files at once. It’s used to print out matches for patterns, strings, or regular expressions. It’s often useful to be able to count the number of mat…

grep is a command line search utility for Linux that will print out lines in files that match a pattern or regular expression. It’s also useful to invert matches, which will filter out all lines in a file that contain the gi…

grep is a search utility in Linux used for matching content. By default, it will print out any line that matches, which might include a lot of output. If you only care about the first match, you can limit the output to just …

Docker makes it easy to run apps using serverless cloud solutions, but many people will prefer to manage multiple containers running on a few powerful machines. In this case, using multiple IP addresses can be a great way to …

grep is a Linux utility commonly used for searching file contents, or any input passed to it. When searching through multiple files, it’s useful to display the filename and line numbers, especially when using it to automate …

You’ve probably heard the term “static content” thrown around—it applies to certain types of websites and files, and depending on the type of website you’re running, it can have a huge effect on how you’re able to host that…

Most Linux servers, including virtual private servers, will come with a public IP address for you to connect to. However, the physical network card used to carry the connection can support any number of IP addresses. Here’s h…

grep is a Linux tool usually used for searching text files for specific content. However, it’s often useful to search directories for file names instead of file contents, and this can be done with grep and other Linux comma…

grep is a Linux utility for searching text files. By default, it will print out the results of the search, but it can also be used to match and print file names that contain the search result, which can be useful when connec…

Docker is a tool that makes it easy to run apps in portable containers. One of the primary benefits of containerization is easily managed updates—all you need to do is restart with a new container, and there are tools that …

It’s no secret that AWS’s pricing is high, and data in particular comes at a premium. The compute may be cheap, with services like Lambda functions and EC2 instances, but if you’re transferring out a lot of data, you’re gonna…

If you want to run a website on AWS, you may not even need a server! AWS’s CloudFront CDN can serve static web content directly from an S3 bucket, leaving you paying only for requests and data transferred (which might even be…