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Sample Lines from a File Using Command Line

NOTE: the article talks about sampling "lines" rather than "records". If a records can occupy multiple lines, e.g., if any field contains a new line (\n), the following tutorial does not work and you have to fall back to more powerful tools such as Python or R.

Let's say …

Account Management in Linux

** Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement! **

Create a User

Both adduser and useradd can be used to create a new user. adduser is interactive while useradd is non-interactive. It is suggested that you use useradd in batch …

Get Group Names on Linux/Unix

Linux

  1. Get information of the staff group.

    $ getent group staff
    staff:x:20:
    
  2. Get group ID of the staff group.

    $ getent group staff | cut -d: -f3
    20
    

Mac

  1. Get information of the staff group.

    $ dscl . -read /Groups/staff
    
  2. Get group ID of the staff group.

    $ dscl . -read /Groups/staff | awk …

List Running Jupyter Notebook Servers

You can list running Jupyter Notebook servers using the following command.

jupyter notebook list

It works well most of the time. However, if the servers are launched using the root account (e.g., in a Docker container), you might encounter issues. In this case, a better alternative is to list …

Run JAR Applications

If there is only 1 class with a main method or if there is a Main-Class defined for the JAR, you can use the following command to run the application.

java -jar app.jar

If you there are multiple classes with main methods in the JAR, you can execute any …