Shell Scripting

Shell scripts for all types of task automation.

Tivoli

TSM: Lost Tapes

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2 years ago
by Kristijan in

We had an issue not long ago were Tivoli Storage Manager was losing track of tapes. The issue ended up being how TSM manages database snapshots which are sent offsite using DRM (Bug in TSM which has been around for a while according to a colleague of mine).

I needed to find out quickly which tapes TSM had no knowledge of, and had essentially become scratch. I wrote the following script to do just that for me. You’ll need to tailor it to your environment, as our tapes are bar-coded COL000L4 through to COL120L4.
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AIX

Monitor AIX filesystems V2

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2 years ago
by Kristijan in

I updated this script a while back and made it a lot easier to maintain. It now checks for usage on all mounted filesystems, except for those listed in the $SKIPFS variable.
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Shell

Split and Reassemble files

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3 years ago
by Kristijan in

I wrote this a few years back for LinuxQuestions.org. It was around 2004 from memory, and majority of the mail servers in Internet land only allowed for 2MB file attachments. This has now change, but I thought I’d post the article anyway.

There always comes a time, where you wish that file was only a few kilobytes/megabytes smaller. Whether it be so it can fit onto your floppy disk, CD-R etc, or so you can meet the attachment limit on an e-mail server. This isn’t really a command that you would use everyday, but it might come in handy.
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Shell

Sending files to multiple Windows hosts

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3 years ago
by Kristijan in

A few months ago at work, I needed to send a number of files to a little over 100 Windows workstations. I had administrator rights on all these workstations, and luckily for me, they all had the same administrator password.

I had access to a Red Hat AS4 server, so I wrote a shell script to read all the hostnames of the workstations from a text file, mount each C$ share via CIFS, copy the necessary files, unmount and repeat.
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Shell

Unrar TV show packs

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3 years ago
by Kristijan in

We all download TV shows, there is no use denying it. I recently got pointed in the directory of a rather funny show called The Big Bang Theory. I grabbed the first episode of season 1, saw what I liked, then grabbed the entire season 1 pack.

17 episodes, each in their own folder in .rar files.
What a pain in the ass!
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