I’m having trouble logging in using Google SDK Compute SSH on a Mac Terminal.
Here’s the fix.
gcloud compute ssh USERNAME@SERVER --zone ZONE --project PROJECTID --internal-ip 2>&1 |
There was an issue with a redirect to another shell.
terminal
Set Terminal Browser to Firefox
Every time I log in to Google Cloud, it’s using the Chromium.
Set BROWSER env to Firefox instead.
export BROWSER=/usr/bin/firefox |
Login to GCP. It should open up Firefox browser instead of Chromium.
gcloud auth login |
Add it your .bashrc or .bashprofile if you want it to be permanent.
GCP Display Serial Port in Shell
How to display serial port in GCP Cloud Shell.
gcloud compute instances get-serial-port-output instance-name \ --zone=us-central1-a \ --project=your-project-id |
Running MySQL commands from the Terminal
You can run MySQL commands from the terminal by using -e switch. Here are a few examples.
mysql -u username -p -e "create database mydb" mysql -u username -p -e "use mydb" mysql -u username -p database -e "select * from mytable" |
If you have .mycnf configured, you can omit the username and password.
mysql -e "create database mydb" mysql -e "use mydb" mysql -e "select * from mytable" |
To run multiple commands from a single line, separate the commands using a semicolon.
mysql -e "create database somedb; use mydb; select * from mytable;" |
Linux Format USB Drive
Here’s how to format a USB drive on Linux.
Plug in the USB drive to see mount point.
# scan for all drives df -Th Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sdc1 fuseblk 30G 66M 30G 1% /media/ulysses/451B99AF225B48EC |
Unmount USB drive.
umount /dev/sdc1 |
Choose a file system type and run the appropriate format command.
# nfts format mkfs.ntfs /dev/sdc1 # vfat format mkfs.vfat /dev/sdc1 # ext4 format mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdc1 |
Display Sequential Write Throughput
Here’s a dd command to display sequential write throughput from the command line.
time dd if=/dev/zero of=/mounted_backup_volume/zero.raw bs=1M count=512 status=progress |
Output is.
512+0 records in 512+0 records out 536870912 bytes (537 MB) copied, 0.667813 s, 804 MB/s real 0m0.669s user 0m0.000s sys 0m0.359s |
Audacity on Catalina
If you’ve recently upgraded your Mac to Catalina or Mac OS 10.15.1, you may have noticed that Audacity is no longer working. To get it working, you’ll need to download version Audacity 2.3.3. However, installing and running it normally the way you’ve done it in the past will not be enough. Because of Catalina, Audacity is not able to gain permissions to the microphone inputs. The only way I was able to get it working is to launch Audacity from the Terminal.
Launch Audacity from the Terminal.
# cd to Application directory cd /Applications/Audacity.app/Contents/MacOS # Run it in the background bash Audacity.sh & |
Click Ok if prompted to use the microphone.
Change VIM Colors
Vim is a text editor. Edit the ~.vimrc
# vim ~.vimrc
colo desert
syntax on |