Tec(h)tonic

Insights into building a solid I.T. foundation in the mid-size business world.

Author: Christopher Scott

  • Migrating to G Suite Business

    For many years now, my domain and email have been hosted by a third-party vendor and, overall, it’s worked out pretty well. However, the one major thorn in my side was relying on their IMAP for e-mail and, more specifically, SpamAssassin for spam filtering – it’s a nuisance to configure and maintain and it’s never…

  • grep search for lines that do NOT contain certain words

    Of course, all it took was a little Google searching to find the answer to this, but I never bothered to do it until today – this is a lifesaver: ^((?!hede).)*$ The regex above will match any string, or line without a line break, not containing the (sub)string ‘hede’. Thanks to this post for this gem.

  • My scripts for JAMF Pro are now on GitHub

    I’ve been heavily involved in the implementation of my company’s JAMF Pro (a macOS system management tool) installation over the past year and one of the more powerful abilities of the JAMF system is to utilize shell scripting to expand its capabilities. Now, I’m no coder but I can muddle my way through shell scripting…