simple script to watch for file changes on Linux

simple script to watch for file changes on Linux
Its a pretty common exercise in Linux/Unix shell programming to monitor a particular folder for file changes, typically the addiiton or change of a file. There’s a variety fo ways to do it , the more common approach is to use. In Linux, we can use the inotify interface to monitor a directory or a file. We do this ...

Best modern 2023 HTML (free) website templates and designs 2

Best modern 2023 HTML (free) website templates and designs
Designing a modern (responsive) HTML web page is not a trivial task, not only do you need to have a good sense of design and an artistic flare, but there’s a wide assortment of technical items (fonts, css styling, javascript components, etc.) that need to be implemented to meet your or your clients demand for ...

How to Rsync between two folders automatically on file changes 2

How to Rsync between two folders automatically on file changes
A common usage of rsync is to copy files from one location to another, rsync is the successor of scp command . However, there are some advantages that rsync has over scp: Incremental transfer: rsync can transfer only the differences between two files, which makes it faster and more efficient than scp. This is particularly ...

Linux , 3 ways to keep long running processes in background

Linux , 3 ways to keep long running processes in background
  In Linux, there are several ways to keep a long running process running in the background. Here are a few common methods: Using & to run the command in the background: You can run a command in the background by appending an ampersand (&) to the end of the command. For example, to run a process called myprogram in ...

a week in beautiful O’ahu , Hawa’ii 2

a week in beautiful O'ahu , Hawa'ii
Waikiki Bay in Honolulu,, in front of the statue of the father of Hawaiian Surf culture, Olympian Duke Kahanamoku Aloha, readers! Christine and I recently (Back in earlier December 2022) had the opportunity to explore the beautiful island of Oahu in Hawaii, and we had an amazing time. This was our second trip to the ...

Create ssh-copy-id script for Windows

Create ssh-copy-id script for Windows
Those of us who use linux with keyless logins and ssh , usually find the utility ssh-copy-id as a convenient way to copy the ssh ke into the authorized keys files of the destination server. This works great on Linux systems, but windows (and also Mac) don’t have a native version fo ssh-copy-id, of course ...

Creating a digital “death / afterlife” file , passing along your important information

Creating a   digital
While many of us probably don’t think much of our demise (or incapacitation) , inevitably it will happen, what’s worse particularly for our loved ones is when it happens unexpectedly , and with so much of our modern life lived online , there’s often a bunch of accounts and files the hold important financial , ...

AI conversational text model, ChatGPT, the end of Google? 2

AI conversational text model, ChatGPT, the end of Google?
The latest rage sweeping the Internet circa December 2022 is chatGPT, What is chatGPT? Here I’ll let it (chatGPT) answer that question itself (The paragraphs below were created with this chatbot) Midjourney Generated Image ChatGPT (https://chat.openai.com/chat ) is a cutting-edge language model developed by OpenAI. It is a variant of the popular GPT-3 model, which ...

2022 HASHathon 6.2-Mile Trail Run

2022 HASHathon 6.2-Mile Trail Run
This year I took part in the 41st annual 6-mile Trail Run Hashathon in the Cheesequake State Park  Park in Matawan, NJ. This trail run is a fun and entertaining jaunt through the various trails of the Cheesequake State Park, the run is both challenging and fun, and can get rather slippery and muddy depending ...