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If you still connect to your wireless access point manually and need to use wpa_supplicant, the above fu will grep all of the known SSID from your wpa_supplicant.conf file, present it in a Zenity list and return the SSID name you choose. I've wrapped this command in to a bash script that then up's the interface, associates and autenticates. Saves me from using NetworkManager ;)
Searches Google, but requires no "", and will also search all terms input in the CL, eg:
> google foo bar
returns search URL "http://www.google.com/search?q=foo%20bar"
You could also use awk to replace all spaces with a +, which is how the Google search handles spaces, but that makes it more than one line.
This option makes a copy of your current db and via ssh it transfer to the server you specify and upload the database to the specific User & Password you specify (Note the db User & Pass, can be different from the one you use in the other server)
If you are going to use "localhost" as your main db remove (-h) and youst add "localhost"
Note: Replace 200000 with drive bytes/512, and /dev/sdx with the destination drive/partition. ;)
Note: You may need to install pipebench, this is easy with "sudo apt-get install pipebench" on Ubuntu.
The reason I hunted around for the pieces to make up this command is that I wanted to specifically flip all of the bits on a new HDD, before running an Extended SMART Self-Test (actually, the second pass, as I've already done one while factory-zeroed) to ensure there are no physical faults waiting to compromise my valuable data. There were several sites that came up in a Google search which had a zero-fill command with progress indicator, and one or two with a fill-with-ones command, but none that I could find with these two things combined (I had to shuffle around the dd command(s) to get this to happen without wasting speed on an md5sum as well).
For reference, these are the other useful-looking commands I found in my search:
Zero-fill drive "/dev/sdx", with progress indicator and md5 verification (run sudo fdisk -l to get total disk bytes, then divide by 512 and enter the resulting value into this command for a full wipe)
$ dd if=/dev/zero bs=512 count= | pipebench | sudo tee /dev/sdx | md5sum
And this command for creating a file filled with ones is my other main source (besides the above command and man pages, that is - I may be a Linux newbie but I do read!):
$ tr '\000' '\377' < /dev/zero | dd of=allones bs=1024 count=2k
Hope someone finds this useful! :)
Cheers,
- Gliktch
A null operation with the name 'comment', allowing comments to be written to HISTFILE. Prepending '#' to a command will *not* write the command to the history file, although it will be available for the current session, thus '#' is not useful for keeping track of comments past the current session.
Copies the complete root-dir of a linux server to another one, where the new harddisks formated and mountet. Very useful to migrate a root-server to another one.