Jason Cannon > Quotes

“Strip out Comments and Blank Lines $ grep -E -v "^#|^$" file”
― Jason Cannon, Command Line Kung Fu: Bash Scripting Tricks, Linux Shell Programming Tips, and Bash One-liners

“The shell is nothing more than a program that accepts your commands and executes those commands. Said another way, the shell is a command line interpreter.”
― Jason Cannon, Linux for Beginners

“You can scale without increasing availability or uptime. ”
― Jason Cannon, High Availability for the LAMP Stack: Eliminate Single Points of Failure and Increase Uptime for Your Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP Based Web Applications

“In many cases it makes sense to scale your web servers horizontally while you scale your database servers vertically. ”
― Jason Cannon, High Availability for the LAMP Stack: Eliminate Single Points of Failure and Increase Uptime for Your Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP Based Web Applications

“The superuser on a Linux system is also called root. Anything that can be done on a server can be done by root. However, normal users can only do a subset of the things root can do. Root access is typically restricted to system administrators, but if you happen to support an application on a Linux server you may need root privileges to install, start, or stop it. There are ways to grant specific users root privileges for specific cases. This is often accomplished with the sudo -- SuperUser Do -- program.”
― Jason Cannon, Linux for Beginners

“Running multiple services on a single node is sometimes referred to as pancaking. ”
― Jason Cannon, High Availability for the LAMP Stack: Eliminate Single Points of Failure and Increase Uptime for Your Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP Based Web Applications

“Convert Text Files from Windows Format to Linux Format and Vice-Versa $ dos2unix $ unix2dos Sooner or later you're going to be sent a file or download one that uses a pair of CR (carriage return) and LF (line feed) characters to terminate lines in the file.  Those type of files are Windows/DOS formatted.  Unix-like operating systems simply use the LF character to terminate a line.  Sometimes this can cause issues.  To convert the file to a unix-like format, use dos2unix.  To examine the line termination characters use "cat -A" or the "file" command. $”
― Jason Cannon, Command Line Kung Fu: Bash Scripting Tricks, Linux Shell Programming Tips, and Bash One-liners

“That's great, but what book should I read next?  What book would be a great companion”
― Jason Cannon, Linux Administration: The Linux Operating System and Command Line Guide for Linux Administrators

“or custom”
― Jason Cannon, High Availability for the LAMP Stack: Eliminate Single Points of Failure and Increase Uptime for Your Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP Based Web Applications

“Files by Date with Ease $ alias d='date +%F' By using the date format”
― Jason Cannon, Command Line Kung Fu: Bash Scripting Tricks, Linux Shell Programming Tips, and Bash One-liners

“Also, _netdev signals that networking needs to be started before the file system mount is even attempted.”
― Jason Cannon, High Availability for the LAMP Stack: Eliminate Single Points of Failure and Increase Uptime for Your Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP Based Web Applications