How to use shorthand names for hostnames with ssh? You don’t always want to type in a complete host name when using ssh to remote hosts. Here is how to configure and use shorthand hostnames with ssh.
Category: GNU Linux
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Mount an Open-Xchange InfoStore on Linux
Open-Xchange is an all-in-one Groupware solution, providing not only email, but also a CalDAV calendar, tasks, file- or InfoStore and an online document editor. All shareable with other users. The InfoStore is used to save documents online, in the cloud. This article is about accessing and mounting your Open-Xchange remote WebDAV InfoStore file share, on Linux with mount.davfs or Dolphin GUI file manager.

Bash: Grep through a large number of files – “Argument list too long”
Running into an error “/bin/grep: Argument list too long” when using grep to search for patterns in files recursively? “Argument list too long” indicates there are too many arguments into a single command which hits the ARG_MAX limit. Here is how to resolve this error.
Installing Debian GNU/Linux 7.0 (Wheezy) on HP EliteBook 8570w
was FedUp with Fedora Core 17/18 after a day, so I decided to return to my old love: Debian GNU/Linux. It’s been a couple of years, but I’m happy to be back! Just run the netinst installer which will take care of the most. Configure NVIDIA Quadro K2000M and iwlwifi on Debian GNU/Linux 7.0 Wheezy. After installing your base system, you need to take a few extra steps to configure your NVIDIA Quadro K2000M video card and Intel wifi adapter

Check IP address blacklist status in Bash
Bash script to check an IP address reputation status in several blacklists. I’ve added HttpBl as backlist and an API key is required for this list. Using this script in Bash you can quickly test if an IP address is blacklisted.