Farshid/Ashouri

linux

7 posts tagged “linux”.

  1. 2025

  2. Running fully isolated commands in Linux

    To use to run a Python command that cannot see or touch files outside its own folder, you must combine with .

    isolation linux chroot unshare
    1 min read
  3. 2024

  4. Piping echo to a file owned by root using sudo and tee

    I wanted to create a file with a shell one-liner where the file lived somewhere owned by root. I tried this but it didn't work: Running using didn't pass through to the bit.

    TIL linux
    1 min read

  5. Using iconv to convert the text encoding of a file

    In sqlite-utils issue 439 I was testing against a CSV file that used UTF16 little endian encoding, also known as .

    TIL linux
    1 min read
  6. 2023

  7. Compile a new sqlite3 binary on Ubuntu

    I wanted to try the backup command that was released in SQLite3 3.27.0 on 2019-02-07. Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS has SQLite 3.22.0 from 2018-01-22.

    sqlite ubuntu linux compilation cli
    1 min read

  8. Basic strace to see what a process is doing

    I had a long-running process and I wanted to check that it was at least doing something . I know its PID (32425 in this case) - here's how to use to see what it's doing right now.

    linux debugging cli strace system-calls
    1 min read

  9. Enabling a user to execute a specific command as root without a password

    I wanted a script running as a non-root user to be able to restart a systemd service on my Ubuntu machine without needing a password.

    linux sudo security cli ubuntu
    1 min read

  10. Building a specific version of SQLite with pysqlite on macOS/Linux

    I wanted the ability to test my Python software against specific version of SQLite on macOS. I found a way to do that using pysqlite3.

    sqlite python macos linux compilation
    1 min read