How to Get Your User's SHELL and PATH Information
How to find your user SHELL and PATH on Linux
echo $PATH
echo $SHELL
Which will print the paths to the screen
/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
/bin/bash
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Quick Syntax to Pipe an SQL Query Directly to a file
Here is a quick way to put the contents of a database table into a simple text file. This could be handy if for example, you just want to grab some emails and pop the results into a simple csv file. Your sql statement can be as creative as sql allows. All...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Add Users to a Group on Ubuntu
To create a new user on Ubuntu (Heron8)
adduser johndoe
To create a new group
groupadd barleyfarmers
Add johndoe to the barleyfarmers group
adduser johndoe barleyfarmers
The adduser command, when you're first adding the new user accou...
Written by Sean Behan on 03/02/2017