If you have trouble deleting an object storage bucket in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure you may have to clear old multipart uploads. The message may look something like this: Bucket named ‘DR-Validation’ has pending multipart uploads. Stop all multipart uploads first. At the time the only way I could do this…
Restic scripting plus jq and minio client
I am jotting down some recent work on scripting restic and also using restic’s json output with jq and mc (minio client). NOTE this is not production just example. Use at your own risk. These are edited by hand from real working scripts but since they are edited they will…
Restic json output and jq
Restic has the ability to show output in json. Here is how I used it for some CSV type reporting I needed on backup jobs. Example json output. With @csv filter. I needed double quotes and could not figure out how to tell @csv filter to quote so below workaround…
Linux Screen Utility Buffer Scrolling
If you use the Linux screen utility a lot for long running jobs etc you may have experienced scrolling issues. The quickest way is to try Control-a and then Escape. You should now be able to use Up/Down keys or even PgUp/PgDn. Press Escape to exit scrolling. In my case…
Bash Read Array From Config File
I was recently needing to read values from a configuration file into bash and had some success with reading json with jq into bash array(s). However I resorted to a non json version which worked well. Something like this. Config File Code Run
Bash Array Dynamic Name
Sometimes you want to have dynamic array names to simplify code. Below is one way of making the array name dynamic in a loop. And output like this.
Boto3 DynamoDB Create Table BillingMode
If you had issues when trying to create a DynamoDB table using On-Demand mode you probably need to upgrade boto3. I was using the apt repository version of python3-boto3 (1.4.2) and getting this message below. Unknown parameter in input: “BillingMode”, must be one of: AttributeDefinitions, TableName, KeySchema, LocalSecondaryIndexes, GlobalSecondaryIndexes, ProvisionedThroughput,…
OCI Cli Query
If you want to manipulate the output of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure CLI commands you can pipe output through jq. I have examples of jq elsewhere. You can also use the query option like follow. And for good measure also a jq example. Plus csv filter.
Azure AD SSO Login to AWS CLI
Note out of scope here is setting up the services itself. This article is about using a Node application to login to Azure on a client and then being able to use the AWS CLI. Specifically this information applied to a Linux desktop. Setting up the services are documented here:…
Bash History Plus Comment
If you like using Control-R in bash to find previous commands here is a useful tip. You can add a comment to a command and then when you use Control-R searching by typing you can find it by your comment. Example I use apt update. Run command including your comment…