Tag Archives: sysadmin

Simple is lovely

Posted on October 19, 2009 by drlidbom

Needed to quickly get a new shortcut out to a group of terminal server users on their desktops and start menus.  Nothing particularly complicated about the script, but it did the job: for /f “tokens=*” %a in (‘dir C:\Docume~1\ /b … Continue reading →

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Deleting files in a text file (OSX)

Posted on March 25, 2009 by drlidbom

Someone had a list of absolute paths of files they needed to delete. I sent them this tiny script to help them out: sed ‘s/\ /\\ /g’ filelist.txt | xargs rm Explanation: Take filelist.txt, replace all the spaces with backslash … Continue reading →

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A really good one.

Posted on June 21, 2008 by drlidbom

GEEK ALERT:I learned a lot about Windows Time Service and related items last night. For all the domain controllers and computers to talk nicely to each other on a Windows network (and other networks relying on Kerberos/most modern authentication mechanisms), … Continue reading →

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