May 2019 - A Commonplace Blog

Installing ArchLinux with Encrypted LVM, UEFI and GPT

Posted on May 28, 2019 by russell

This is not a definitive guide. This is just what I learned installing and booting to a command prompt with /boot, /home and root defined as logical volumes inside of an encrypted partition. As I’ve said, this is by no means an exhaustive guide. It’s more like a list of specific steps and resources for…

How to Rename Similar Files at the Command Prompt Using Sed

Posted on May 4, 2019 by russell

Using a simple “script” at the command line, you can rename a bunch of similar filenames with ease. Say you’ve got something like: foo-001, foo-002 and foo-003, but you want them to be bar-001, bar-002 and bar-003. The script will look like : $ for i in `ls -1 foo*`; do mv $i `echo $i…