Recently I noticed that whenever I used screen not only was my .bash_profile not working but every time that I ran a command I was presented with this lovely error Continue reading “Error with Screen and iTerm2”
Installing sshpass on OS X
I recently came across ansible and decided to give it a go, actually kind of upset that I never came across it before as I can already imagine quite a few cases when it could have come in handy and saved me a lot of time when it came to running the same command across multiple servers.
I went about installing ansible by using Homebrew which I have installed on my MacBook Air but soon noticed that I was not able to run commands against all the servers since sshpass was not installed on my machine. I figured the easy route would be to use Homebrew and just install it, but just searching for sshpass with Homebrew I was presented with the following error message. Continue reading “Installing sshpass on OS X”
Speedtest from the CLI
The following alias that I have setup on my machine is really nice for running a speedtest directly from the CLI with out having to use your browser. I have matched up the results with various online tests and it seems to match up almost perfectly with what they display.
| 1 | alias speedtest='echo "scale=2; `curl --progress-bar -w "%{speed_download}" http://cachefly.cachefly.net/10mb.test -o test.zip ` / 131072" | bc | xargs -I {} echo {}Mb\/s' |