Unix Magic Trick: Rename stuff in bulk

Fri, 14 Jul 2017 12:39:14 +0000

Here’s a magic-trick I rock from time to time. I only graze the basic abilities of the “rename” program, but even in my basic use of it, I find it super helpful.

In this case, I had a situation where my eBooks had been resorted from a massive flat directory in to one containing sub-dirs named with the prefix “Categories - “. I might have sorted them in another manner if I didn’t know about the rename command. When I was done sorting and thus left with my category-based directories, I then wanted to rename each dir to dump the prefix.

The Anti-Epic Tale of Making IIS Play Nice with Apache

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:04:56 +0000

The Mission

To run an Apache server (on Windows) on the same machine that was already hosting IIS.

The Strategy

The plan was to alter each virtual host defined in IIS to not bind to the typical HTTP/HTTPS ports (80 & 443), but instead have it use arbitrary ports (was to be 8080 & 4433). With that in place, I could then run Apache normally. In order to get traffic to hit the right sites as hosted by IIS, the apache server would have it’s own virtual host definitions for each IIS site. In those definitions, there would be a Reverse Proxy config to get Apache to pass the traffic internally over to the arbitrary ports.

Command-Line on

Unix Magic Trick: Rename stuff in bulk

The Anti-Epic Tale of Making IIS Play Nice with Apache

The Mission

The Strategy