If you are using Linux with graphical X interface and need to copy to the clipboard, the ‘xclip‘ utility works similar to ‘pbcopy’ on a Mac terminal and will place the content unto your clipboard. Here is the basic usage: sudo apt install xclip -y # copies to clipboard echo “hello” | xclip -selection clipboard … Linux: xclip to place content on the clipboard
GitHub has a CLI tool that allows you to perform many of the operations you may currently perform in the web UI. Among its many uses, the ‘gh‘ utility will allow you to fork repositories, modify issues, merge PR, and create releases all from the console for ease of use or automation. Below I will … GitHub: CLI tool for repository operations
If your VSCode terminal does not contain the directory location you need in its PATH, you can add it locally to the VSCode settings and it will remain persistent every time you open the IDE. From the main menu, go to File > Preferences > Settings, and click on the “Open Settings (JSON)” icon shown … VSCode: Add a directory to the terminal PATH
Although there are Python modules [1,2,3] specially suited for displaying text to the console in color, if you want a quick no-dependency method then you can use ANSI color codes directly. Here is an example of printing a line in green, then red. print(“\033[0;32mOK this is green\033[00m”) print(“\033[0;31mERROR this is red\033[00m”) Additional color codes can … Python: printing in color using ANSI color codes
Desktop screen sharing is ubiquitous, but there is still a lot of value in sharing a live terminal screen with another set of users that can not only view, but also have the ability to copy-paste and even provide input. The tmux utility can create a session using a shared socket. To start a tmux … Bash: Sharing a terminal screen among users with tmux
If you need to call attention to a message within your script, a splash of color is often the best way to get noticed in the sea of monochrome text. The standard ANSI escape codes are supported at most consoles, and in its simplest form can be used like this: RED=’\033[0;31m’ GREEN=’\033[0;32m’ NC=’\033[0m’ echo -e … Bash: Outputting text in color for readability
If you are running KVM on a console-only server, you still have the option to use the graphical virt-manager. You just need to specify the method of communication (ssh, tls, tcp, etc). In this article I will show how to use virt-manager from an Ubuntu client desktop to a server running KVM and libvirtd, with … KVM: virt-manager to connect to a remote console using qemu+ssh
If you are running KVM on a console-only host OS, you can still do a full Ubuntu installation on a KVM guest VM by using serial port output and the Ubuntu Server text-based installer. Once deployed, this guest VM can be accessed by using ssh or ‘virsh console’, without the need for a graphics display. … KVM: Creating an Ubuntu VM with console-only access
If you are using the direct output of a command to feed a while loop in BASH, you may still want to take user input inside that loop. For example, if you need the user to confirm each line by pressing <ENTER>. Take a simple example like this: grep one test.txt | while read -r … Bash: Reading input from the console while looping over output of command
The Spring framework provides a proven and well documented model for the development of custom projects and services. The Spring Boot project takes an opinionated view of building production Spring applications, which favors convention over configuration. In this article we will explore how to configure a Spring Boot project to use the Simple Logging Facade … Spring: Spring Boot with SLF4J/Logback sending to syslog
Enabling verbose logs for an AppDynamics machine or database agents can be invaluable for troubleshooting connectivity or network issues. Luckily, this is easily done by editing the conf/logging/log4j.xml file. By default, only the error level messages are sent to the logs: <root> <priority value=”error”/> <appender-ref ref=”FileAppender”/> </root> But you can modify this so that debug … AppDynamics: Enabling verbose debug logs for Agents