How To Print Matching Line and All After Using awk

Author: , August 1st, 2019

Every time I use awk, my respect for it grows! Like grep, find and rsync, it is one of the powerhouse command-line tools in my arsenal. Recently, I needed to list all MySQL binary log files from a starting file forwards in sequence. AWK to the rescue! For example, I knew the starting file was […]

How To Auto-Restart Apache If the Load Gets Too High

Author: , September 15th, 2015

The script to check and restart apache…works on CentOS – YMMV!

Add to cron * * * * * /root/restart_apache_if_load_hits_threshold.sh >> /var/log/restart_apache_if_load_hits_threshold.log 2>&1

How To Add a Column of Numbers Using AWK

Author: , January 1st, 2015

awk ‘{sum+=$1}END{print sum}’ inputFile