Category Archives: Linux

Automation via shell aliases

By Sebastian Basner | Published: 10. January 2018
When working on software development projects there are many repetitive tasks to do, may it be the deployment of a binary, starting of different servers in docker containers or standalone, the exchange of config files for different environments, the migration of a database or something simple as the navigation to deep paths on the command […]
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Find and kill a process on a specific port (lsof)

By Sebastian Basner | Published: 9. November 2016
You might all have experienced the situation when you want to start a server either from within your IDE or via the terminal to only get the error that the “port is already in use” and the startup is aborted. This is mostly caused by aborting the server or a crash of the IDE which […]
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Backup von /home mit tar aus der Shell

By Sebastian Basner | Published: 6. April 2012
Vor einigen Wochen habe ich es geschafft mein Ubuntu so zu verbasteln das ich den XServer und somit auch keinen Desktop mehr starten konnte. Nun war mein letztes Backup allerdings leider nicht mehr ganz taufrisch und die Arbeit einiger Tage drohte verloren zu gehen. Da aber noch ein Login auf der Shell möglich war war […]
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