Shell Scripting: Setting a Variable Equal to stderr
How to redirect stderr into a variable in Bash (and other Bourne shells), tcsh, fish, or oh scripts, with examples for each.
Author: Bailey Kasin
I build virtual environments and challenges for Cybersecurity students to complete as a way to gain experience before graduating and entering the workforce.
Arch: How to Install the Oracle Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel
Despite not really knowing what is so “unbreakable” about Oracle’s UEK, I find myself strangely fascinated by it. So I have taken it upon myself to figure how to compile and boot other flavor of Linux on it, which is simultaneously easier and harder than one might expect. As I write this article, I am
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Copy a Hard Drive to Any VM Anywhere with SSH
Have you ever wanted to import an OVA into services like Linode, Vultr, AWS, and others? Have you ever wanted to get your VM off of one of those services? Well let me introduce the magic of SSH, dd, and Gzip. To get started, you need to boot Linux on both VM’s and have
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Virtualization: Why I Stopped Using Xen Server
A few quick notes before that actual post: I posted this originally in early 2018 on a different website, but no longer use that site. So I decided that it would make sense to re-upload here with a few edits. There is something called Xen and something called Xen Server. Xen is a virtualization platform
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Gentoo: Disable Predictable/Consistent Network Adapter Naming
You have probably noticed that network adapters in Linux now follow a naming convention of “enpXsY” or “wlpXsY” instead of “ethX” and “wlanX”. This is generally fine and doesn’t cause much issue. The one downside to the change is that Gentoo and Linux From Scratch VMs running on VMware will have ridiculous names like “eno16777728”.
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Adding Ubuntu to a Windows Domain
There are many guides on the process of adding Ubuntu to a Windows Domain. None really worked for me, so here's my attempt at making a tutorial on how to do this. With help from Rob.
Bailey’s Big List of Escape Characters and Sequences
Escaping special characters is generally pretty straight forward, just throw the correct character in front of the problem, and it should solve itself. Sometimes it gets a bit weird though, and also sometimes it is difficult to find the correct way of doing something. I plan for this to be a live document that I
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Gentoo: How to Install open-vm-tools
Installing open-vm-tools in Gentoo can lead to errors if the kernel is misconfigured. Here is how to fix that.
Microsoft: Please Add Ctrl+u Like Linux Has
Ctrl+u is super useful, which means Windows doesn't have it.