Rename ambigous files downloaded from passport advantage If you use the IBM Passport Advantage or PartnerWorld portal to download software, you no doubt want to have the filenames renamed to something more meaningful than the software part number. This script will rename files based on the parsed info in the dlmgr.pro file. Example jdsmedia@deantp1 /cygdrive/c/DownloadDirector [...]
Extract TAR files over SSH
Instead of copying a large tar file over ssh then extracting, take care of the whole process with one command: PUSH METHOD: cat tarfile | ssh –C user@remotehost “(cd targetdirectory && tar –xf -)” This will stream the tarfile over a compressed ssl tunnel and the other side will only extract if the target directory [...]
