Urlaubsbilder aus der Ostschweiz

19. August 2023 in Sonstiges.

Ein paar Fotos aus der Ostschweiz, Kantone St. Gallen und Appenzell Innerrhoden:

Blick aus dem Hotelfenster auf St. Gallen Hauptbahnhof

 

Donnerstag morgens in St. Gallen Altstadt

 

St. Gallen Altstadt spät abends

 

Ein Laden in Appenzell

 

Blick das Rheintal hinauf (links des Rheins ist Liechtenstein)

 

Bergblumen

 

Bergblumen am Gipfel des Hohen Kastens, vor den Fenstern des Drehrestaurants

 

Panorama West-Süd-Südost vom Hohen Kasten

 

Blick aufs Appenzeller Land, aufgenommen von der Terrasse des Restaurants Waldegg in Teufen

 

Blick auf den Bodensee aus einem Fenster des Rohrschacher Museums im Kornhaus

 

Hauptstraße in Rohrschach

A simple GUI for basic Package Management with Apt

29. Januar 2024 in Administration, GNU/Linux, Programmierung, Technik.

The tool presented here, „Simple Apt Update“ (simple-apt-update) is nothing more than a front-end to the non-interactive execution of apt-get update|full-upgrade and apt list --upgradeable. It can look like this:

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Maintaining Multi-Line „stat“ Formats using Bourne Again Shell

20. August 2023 in GNU/Linux, Programmierung.

The stat command from GNU core utilities features not only a --format FORMAT option but also a --printf FORMAT one, the difference being that the latter allows for backslash escapes such as \n.

This allows for custom per-file report formats containing newlines, for example:

stat --printf 'Name: %n\nSize: %s Bytes\n' /etc/passwd

If the format string becomes more complex, the command line soon becomes unwieldy, such as:

stat --printf 'Name: %n\nOwner ID: %u\nSize: %s Bytes\nLast accessed: %x\n' /etc/passwd

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Make a Bourne Again Shell Script Log its Output to a File

20. August 2023 in Administration, GNU/Linux, Programmierung.

The Bourne Again Shell script presented in this article demonstrates techniques related to capturing and logging output (standard output and standard error stream) of a script into a log file while also delivering it to the regular output destinations (for example the terminal or whatever the caller has chosen to redirect to). Some questions are addressed:

  • How to „clone“ standard output and standard error stream of a shell script to a single log file?
  • Are the messages from both streams interleaved into a single file in the appropriate order?
  • Can a script perform output cloning for some portions of its procedure while skipping it for others?
  • Are there specific requirements for output that is to be cloned to a file?
  • Are there best practices when a script modifies its own output redirections?

The example provided below has been tested on GNU/Linux using GNU „bash“ version 5 and „tee“ version 8.32 from GNU coreutils. It uses the Bash-only feature of process substitution. An implementation in POSIX Shell (possibly using only POSIX tools) would be more difficult.

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Using sed or awk to ensure a specific last Line in a Text

20. August 2023 in GNU/Linux, Programmierung.

Given a file containing bytes of text with lines separated by the newline character (\n), one of these lines can be said to be „the last line of the file“; it is a sequence of bytes occurring in the file, for which holds:

  • The sequence contains no newline character, and
  • the sequence is followed by at most one newline character and no other bytes.

The task at hand is, using shell utilities, to write a procedure that makes sure that a given file contains a last line that contains a desired sequence of text characters.

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Fotos von Palma de Mallorca und Umgebung

24. April 2023 in Sonstiges.

I went to CLT23 …

17. August 2023 in GNU/Linux.

… and i got a new coffee mug. 🙂

Determine IPv4 Addresses of a Libvirt Qemu-KVM Domain

1. Juli 2023 in Administration, GNU/Linux, Technik.

In the VM, on Redhat-likes, make sure that the Qemu guest agent is installed:

dnf install qemu-guest-agent

On Debian-likes, execute:

apt install qemu-guest-agent

For Microsoft Windows guests, there are some tutorials on the web, see for example [1].

On the HV, execute:

virsh qemu-agent-command --domain myvm \
    '{"execute":"guest-network-get-interfaces"}' | \
    jq -r '
        [.return[] | select(.name!="lo") | ."ip-addresses"] | flatten |
        .[] | select(."ip-address-type"=="ipv4")."ip-address"
    '

The output should be one IPv4 address per line.

If you are interested in IPv4 and IPv6 addresses instead, just skip the „select“ filter:

virsh qemu-agent-command --domain myvm \
    '{"execute":"guest-network-get-interfaces"}' | \
    jq -r '
        [.return[] | select(.name!="lo") | ."ip-addresses"] | flatten |
        .[]."ip-address" '