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Tips and Tricks - Blog

Written by Wim Stockman - last updated on 2023-01-12

Autologin tty on Artix Runit

Thu Jan 12 08:04:45 AM UTC 2023

Edit file /etc/runit/sv/agetty-tty1/conf

Change line: GETTY_ARGS="--noclear"

To: GETTY_ARGS="--autologin yourusername --noclear"

Add Todays date in a groff document.

Sat Dec 17 04:07:17 PM UTC 2022

Groff has some built-in Registers.

For the date it has:

	\n[dw] Day of the week(1-7)
	\n[dy] Day of the Month(1-31)
	\n[mo] Current Month(1-12)
	\n[yr] The Current Year minus 1900 (old version)
	\n[year] The Current Year. (new version)

For Time is has the built-in registers:

These get initialized at start-up of groff

	\n[seconds] 0-59
	\n[minutes] 0-59
	\n[hours] 0-23

So to display date in iso style:

\n[year]-\n(mo-\n(dy

Convert epoch date or UNIXTIMESTAMP to other format date

Sat Jun 18 03:42:28 PM CEST 2022

date -d @1652997600 --iso-8601

Result: 2022-05-20

Get all the awk scripts in a dir presented in slmenu. Choose one and execute it

Fri Mar 19 21:16:01 UTC 2021

Slmenu is a cli version of dmenu. (source)

Get all scripts in menu

    awk -f ./$(ls *.awk | slmenu -i )

Select script and apply to all files in directory

    awk -f ./$(ls *.awk | slmenu -i ) $(ls -tr dir/*)

Select script and apply to latest created file in directory

    awk -f ./$(ls *.awk | slmenu -i ) $(ls -tr dir/* | tail -n1)

Backup your server mariadb database to local computer

Fri Mar 19 21:43:17 UTC 2021

ssh -C host mysqldump yourdatabase > yourdatabase.sql && gzip yourdatabase.sql

The -C in ssh is for compression which saves a lot of time over slower internet connections.

The redirect symbol(">") sents the screen output from the remote machine to the local machine into a file yourdatabase.sql

After succes,thats what the double && are for, gzip database for storage.

Restore your servers mariadb database

copy your backup file to the server

e.g. with scp, rsync ...

scp yourdatabase.sql.gz yourserver:/tmp/
ssh yourserver
cd /tmp
gunzip yourdatabase.sql.gz ; mysql yourdatabase < yourdatabase.sql