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How to Create a Tar File That Excludes Hidden Files and Folders

Joe Kelly — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 22:22:00 +0000

Today I wanted to create a tar file that excludes hidden files and folders — ones that start with a dot (i.e. ‘.’).

Like a good boy, I read the fine man page (RTFM — sometimes the F is replaced with a ruder word than “fine”) but I couldn’t get it to work after several different variations of the exclude pattern. It seems that the exclude pattern that tar expects doesn’t follow any of the regular

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How to Use sudo tar in a Script Without Password Prompt

Joe Kelly — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 18:35:00 +0000

If you are rolling your own backup shell script on your Ubuntu Linux box, chances are you might want to use tar or perhaps rsync somewhere in that script. For this example, let’s say you’ve chosen to use tar.

At some point, you will probably want to use cron or some other mechanism to automate your backup. Furthermore, if you want to coordinate the backup of several computers from one central computer, you will probably end

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Installing VMware Server on Ubuntu 7.10

Jonathan Ng — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 00:48:00 +0000

If you’re thinking about virtualizing your IT environment but you don’t necessarily have a lot of budget/money to do it with, here are a few tips that may help you on your way.

Most of us already know about VMware’s offering of VMware Server for free. This, coupled with some great open-sourced operating systems can make for some pretty efficient hypervisors.

I recently had to install a few VMware Server hosts using Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy as

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Installing webmin on Ubuntu 7.10

Jonathan Ng — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 05:59:00 +0000

Recently, I’ve discovered a very neat tool for administering some of my linux servers. It is called webmin, and it may be one of the more complete web based system administration tools I have seen for linux.

Admittedly, I was a bit apprehensive at first trusting a web interface to do administration. Afterall, I am not one to shy away from the command line. But the more I used the webmin console, the

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