I upload files using the aws cli http://www.systutorials.com/239665/uploading-large-files-amazon-s3-aws-cli/ . But how to get the metadata of an object in AWS S3? You can use the s3api‘s head-object command to get the metadata of an object. Taking one example: $ aws s3api head-object –bucket test-hkust –key dir2/fileupload/fb0c6353-a90c-4522-9355-7cd16cf756ff.file.txt It will print results like { “AcceptRanges”: “bytes”, “ContentType”:…
Most modern servers or computers have sensors to detect the temperature of various components. On Linux, how to get the CPU core temperatur in command linux? First, make sure the package “lm-sensors” is installed on your Linux and the command sensors works for you. Then, you can use this piece of script to get the…
I want to change policy of scheduling in Hadoop, how to I can change job order in map reduce automatically. Assume you are using Hadoop 2 / YARN. The configuration parameter named yarn.resourcemanager.scheduler.class controls the class to be used as the resource scheduler for YARN/Hadoop. The default value for the scheduler class (check more at…
I want to rename a user’s username on Linux. For example, rename user u1 to user1. How to change a user’s username on Linux? You can use the usermod command to modify the user’s info. For changing the user name, you can use the -l option: -l, –login NEW_LOGIN The name of the user will…
How to test whether PATH has a specific directory in it in Bash on Linux? For example, how to test whether /usr/local/mytool/bin is in $PATH? Directories in the $PATH variable are separated by :. So you can use a regular expression to test whether the $PATH contains a directory. The code for your specific example…
The command systemctl enable rpcbind.service seems not work. The rpcbind.service does not start after rebooting. How to make/force the rpcbind.service auto start in systemd on Linux? You an force the rpcbind.service to start by making it be “wanted” by the target such as multi-user: # systemctl add-wants multi-user rpcbind.service This will force rpcbind.service to start.
I have successfully enabled password-less ssh login to a remote server, say example.com with username user. But when I use lftp to log on the sftp by lftp sftp://user@example.com it still asks my password. How it make lftp use my private key to logon the remote lftp server? There is a little trick to make…
How to get file extension from a file name in JavaScript? For examples, For “file.txt”, I want to get “txt”. For “file2.multi.ext.fileext”, I want to get “fileext”. This JavaScript function works well for me. function getExt(filename) { var idx = filename.lastIndexOf(‘.’); // handle cases like, .htaccess, filename return (idx < 1) ? “” : filename.substr(idx…
In Bash, the [ -f ] and [ -d ] tests can test whether a file or a directory exist. What are the corresponding python method for these tests? For -f: **os.path.isfile(path)** Return True if path is an existing regular file. This follows symbolic links. For -d: **os.path.isdir(path)** Return True if path is an existing…
How to get the $PATH environment variables of another user in Bash on Linux? The current user running the Bash script is root. If the scripts is run by root, this piece of code will store the PATH from the environment of the user user1: user1path=$(su – $user1 -c env | grep ^PATH= | cut…
With scp, copying several files such as file1 file2 to remote site can be passed by command line like $ scp file1 file2 user@remote: But how to scp multiple files from remote to local on Linux? You can do similar things by at least 2 method with scp: $ scp user@remote:file{1,2} ./ $ scp user@remote:”file1…
For your first push with git, you may get following errors when you use github or bitbucket. $ git push No refs in common and none specified; doing nothing. Perhaps you should specify a branch such as ‘master’. fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly Everything up-to-date Just run following command to set your remote…
How to test whether a user account, say linuxuser, already exist on Linux? You may make use of id which tries to get user IDs. The Bash code snippet is as follows. user=hello id -u $user >/dev/null 2>&1 if [ “$?” == “0” ]; then echo “user $user already exist.” else echo “user $user doesn’t…
In Vim, ’20G’ moves the cursor to line 20 in command mode. But how to move the cursor to a specific byte in Vim? In normal mode, 20go will move the cursor to byte 20. Or in command line, :goto 20 or :go 20 From vimdoc: :[range]go[to] [count] [count]go Go to {count} byte in the…
In normal Bash script, $0 is the path to the script. However, when a script is sourced, such as . a.sh a.sh’s $0 does not give a.sh. How to get the a.sh inside a.sh? Short answer: use ${BASH_SOURCE[0]}. You can check this post for details and explanations: How to Get Bash Script’s Own Path.
I am using Linux Ming 17 Qiana. How to install MATE on Linux Mint 17? In Linux Mint, the package that installs MATE is ‘mint-meta-mate’: $ sudo aptitude install mint-meta-mate
There are options for Gnome 3 and Cinnamon to make touch pad “natual scroll”. But in MATE, there is no such options in its “Mouse” control options. How to enable natual scroll of touchpad in MATE on Linux? You may manually set the change of your ‘scrolls’ from the touch pad to negative values using…
In Bash, ~username gives the username user’s home. However, this does not work for situations where username is in a variable such as ~$user How to get the home directory from the user name in a variable in Bash? You can use this Bash script snippet: userhome=$(eval echo ~$user) Here, $user get evaluated to its…
Some time, Linux fails to unmount a filesystem reporting “device is busy”. I understand that this helps avoid data lost by disallowing unmouting a filesystem when it is being used. But for some situations, I am sure there is something wrong happened or I care not data lost, such as a NFS mounting while the…
Search and replace in the whole text in Vim can be done by :%s/from/to/gc. But how to search and replace in visual selection only? The %V atom in Vim restricts a pattern so that it matches only inside the visual selection. So, your command for searching and replacing only in the visual selection can be…