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Bash: testing if a file exists, has content, and is recently modified

If you need to test for a file’s existence, content size, and whether it was recently modified, the ‘find‘ utility can provide this functionality in a single call. One scenario for this usage might be the cached results from a remote service call (database, REST service, etc).  If fetching these results was a relatively costly Bash: testing if a file exists, has content, and is recently modified

Kubernetes: running Minikube locally on Ubuntu using VirtualBox

Updated article to latest Minikube, Feb 2019 Minikube is a tool that runs a Kubernetes stack inside a single VM being run by a local virtualization engine such as VirtualBox.  This makes it ideal for local development and experimentation. In this article we’ll be going through installation and validation of a Minikube installation on Ubuntu Kubernetes: running Minikube locally on Ubuntu using VirtualBox