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Archives for May 2020

How to Limit/throttle rsync transfer speed in Linux

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If you use the rsync utility to keep your backups synchronized between your servers or with a local machine, you might want to prevent the script from using too much bandwidth. However, rsync makes a lot of network I/O. The point of limiting bandwidth is to make sure your backup scripts don’t clog up the […]

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How to Count lines in a file in UNIX/Linux

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Question: I have a file on my Linux system having a lot of lines. How do I count the total number of lines in the file? Using “wc -l” There are several ways to count lines in a file. But one of the easiest and widely used way is to use “wc -l”. The wc […]

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