Scanning files

Got an interesting task this week, had to come up with a process to ensure files being stored in the system were virus scanned. In the old days it was likely the server you were running on had anti-virus software installed and so any file saved to the hard disk could be considered scanned. These

Basic data manipulation with Pandas

I’ve avoided the Pandas module in this blog as it is normally associated with data science rather than systems admin. However there are times you will have data in a table format, say a CSV file, or you will be grabbing the same data over a period of time and you want to process it.