I recently had a need for some dummy images, a lot of dummy images, like ~150K images. The idea was simple, I’ve been working on an application that serves images through a custom UI. The images themselves contain highly-sensitive business data. I couldn’t have copies of the images …

When automating your infrastructure many folks use script files to manage the provisioning of resources. In Amazon Web Service (AWS) this often happens in a CloudFormation template. Within that template is almost always a UserData section that allows the user to execute a script during the …

Sometimes we need to pass multiple arguments to a shell script and often we don’t need to pass all arguments to our script every time, that’s where named parameters comes in. With named parameters we can pass something like “–school hard knocks” to our script. However …