Recently, we got the following error from git
$ git status fatal: index file smaller than expected
To fix it, without losing local changes, we removed the corrupted index and reset back to the HEAD using the following commands:
$ rm .git/index $ git reset HEAD .
date +%s | sha256sum | base64 | head -c 32 ; echo
date +%s : will print the system date and time in seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
sha256sum : will compute the SHA256 message digest of the time in seconds we produced before
base64 : will encode the previous data and print them to standard output
head -c 32 : will print the first 32 characters of the previous data
; echo : is used to create a new line at the end of the results
Some times it is not straight forward to call some remote commands using ssh (example of syntax here). Commands like top will not execute as is because they need some environment variables modified due to their interactive nature.
Usage example of wrong remote call to top and its result:
ssh remoteMachine 'top' TERM environment variable not set.
We cannot really describe all of the solutions available but since we are talking about top, we will present a very simple solution.
Luckily, top can be executed in batch mode, which is used for sending output from top to other programs or files by invoking the -b parameter and thus changing the command syntax to:
ssh remoteMachine 'top -b'
This will work just fine but give you a full page of results which might be too much info. To limit the results that you are receiving you can filter the top command results with other commands like head. In the following example we use head to limit the number of rows retrieved to 8, so that we get the system status and the most computational intensive command of our system.
ssh remoteMachine 'top -b | head -n 8'
Which will result to something like this:
top - 07:29:38 up 1:04, 0 users, load average: 2.85, 2.83, 2.24 Tasks: 62 total, 2 running, 60 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 27.8%us, 0.4%sy, 0.0%ni, 71.7%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Mem: 1022116k total, 68960k used, 953156k free, 4364k buffers Swap: 3905532k total, 0k used, 3905532k free, 22776k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 842 userName 20 0 32212 1320 1120 R 188 0.1 46:51.91 application.binary
