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SSH on a Mac Errors with “Write Failed: Broken Pipe”

Recently I had an issue when moving to a new Mac on OSX when I was trying to SSH to a Linux server.  It would make the initial connection and then prompt me for a password.  Once I entered the password, however, it would just hang (ctrl+c wouldn’t even escape out) until eventually it would […]

Stupid Unix Trick – Command Mashups

I’ve been a *nix Administrator in some form or fashion for about 10 years now.  I remember back when I was first learning commands and how the OS works and every once in a while I’d come across something stupidly simple yet extremely useful to put in my bag of tricks.  Yesterday I was reminded […]