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Commands by totti

Terminal - Commands by totti - 80 results

aria2c --max-download-limit=100K file.metalink

2013-03-26 16:05:52

User: totti

Tags: throttle download speed

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Throttle download speed (at speed x )

Throttle download speed

aria2c --max-download-limit=100K file.metalink

Throttle upload speed

aria2c --max-upload-limit=100K file.torrent

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axel --max-speed=x

2013-03-26 16:00:43

User: totti

Tags: download speed

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Throttle download speed (at speed x )

Axel

--max-speed=x, -s x

You can specify a speed (bytes per second) here and Axel will

try to keep the average speed around this speed. Useful if you

don?t want the program to suck up all of your bandwidth.

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gocr -i ~/Screenshot.png

2013-02-28 07:38:13

User: totti

Tags: extract text picture scanning

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Extract text from picture [OCR reader]

Image to text converter.

Convert your scanned book in image format like .png, .jpg into editable text format.

OCR ==> Optical Code Reader

sudo apt-get <apt-get command and options> --print-uris -qq | sed -n "s/'$[^ ]\+$' $[^ ]\+$ $[^ ]\+$ MD5Sum:$[^ ]\+$/wget -c \1/p" > dowload_deb_list.txt

2013-02-09 09:36:53

User: totti

Functions: command sed sudo

Tags: script download package

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Create a package list for offline download

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dbus-send --session --print-reply --dest="org.gnome.SettingsDaemon" /org/gnome/SettingsDaemon/Power org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.Power.Screen.SetPercentage uint32:30

2013-02-04 11:21:07

User: totti

Tags: hardware display dbus brightness

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Adjust display hardware brightness [dbus way]

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xrandr --output LVDS1 --brightness 0.4

2013-02-04 11:00:16

User: totti

Tags: brightness

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Adjust brightness [software way]

xrandr --output <outputname> --brightness <value>

If the driver of your graphics card supports it, then you can use xrandr.

The following command lists the current configuration:

xrandr --current --verbose

If you want to change the configuration of an output, then you need the name of the output. This name is part of the output of xrandr --current, for example LVDS1.

The brightness can be changed like this:

xrandr --output <outputname> --brightness 0.8

Gamma:

xrandr --output <outputname> --gamma 0.5:1.0:1.0

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import -window root -quality 98 screenshot.png

2013-02-04 10:39:39

User: totti

Tags: ImageMagick screenshot

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Take screenshots with imagemagick

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blacklist usb_storage >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf

2013-02-01 09:38:43

User: totti

Tags: block usb

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Blacklist usb storage

Some times you may ban usb to protect thefting of your personal data.

Blacklist the usb_storage module by adding blacklist usb_storage to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf.

To load the module manually,

sudo modprobe usb_storage.

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fatattr -h <file>

2013-02-01 09:25:18

User: totti

Tags: hide FAT

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Set hidden attribe to a file in fat

Syntax is

fatattr [+-hsra] [files]

The letters are...

h hidden

s system

r read only

a archive

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echo 'foo' | tee >(wc -c) >(grep o) >(grep f)

2013-01-31 09:54:18

User: totti

Functions: echo grep tee wc

Tags: tee output input

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Output as many input

Output of a command as input to many

readlink -f /proc/$pid/exe

2013-01-29 15:44:55

User: totti

Functions: readlink

Tags: PID

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bin file of a pid

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diffprocess () { diff <($*) <(sleep 3; $*); }

2013-01-25 08:46:41

User: totti

Functions: diff sleep

Tags: diff process command

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diff process output

Execute a process or list of commands in the given interval and output the difference in output.

sudo nethogs eth0

2013-01-25 08:20:44

User: totti

Functions: sudo

Tags: Network process bandwidth

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network usage per process

Nethogs groups bandwidth by process.

xprop | awk '/PID/ {print $3}'

2013-01-25 08:04:07

User: totti

Functions: awk

Tags: PID window select

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pid of manually selecting window

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notify-send " " -i notification-display-brightness-low -h int:value:50 -h string:x-canonical-private-synchronous:brightness

2013-01-18 14:24:40

User: totti

Tags: notify custom

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notify brightness level [custom]

Brightness indicator to be used in scripts that adjust brightness [especially sys that doesn't support automatically]

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xbacklight -10%

2013-01-17 17:53:05

User: totti

Tags: laptop brightness

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adjust laptop display hardware brightness [non root]

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sudo pm-hibernate

2013-01-15 18:49:34

User: totti

Functions: sudo

Tags: hibernate

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hibernate

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dbus-send --system --print-reply --dest="org.freedesktop.UPower" /org/freedesktop/UPower org.freedesktop.UPower.Suspend

2013-01-15 18:47:21

User: totti

Tags: ram gnome root dbus suspend privilege

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suspend to ram without root

dbus-send --system --print-reply     --dest="org.freedesktop.UPower"     /org/freedesktop/UPower     org.freedesktop.UPower.Suspend

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pmi action suspend

2013-01-15 18:44:31

User: totti

Tags: ram sleep suspend

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Suspend to ram

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export HISTFILESIZE=99999

2013-01-02 09:25:06

User: totti

Functions: export

Tags: history file bash_history

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set history file length

set how many commands to keep in history

Default is 500

Saved in /home/$USER/.bash_history

Add this to /home/$USER/.bashrc

HISTFILESIZE=1000000000

HISTSIZE=1000000

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sed '/foo/ s/foo/foobar/g' <filename>

2013-01-02 08:52:44

User: totti

Functions: sed

Tags: sed file optimize

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optimized sed

Use optimized sed to big file/stream to reduce execution time

Use

sed '/foo/ s/foo/foobar/g' <filename>

insted of sed

's/foo/foobar/g' <filename>

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ls -l /proc/*/fd/* | grep 'deleted'| grep "\/proc.*\file-name-part"

2012-09-13 09:54:16

User: totti

Functions: grep ls

Tags: ls recovery file proc deleted

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Find removed files still in use via /proc

Accidentally deleted some file while used by a program ? (Eg: a song)

Use this command to find the file handle and recover using

cp /proc/pid/fd/filehandle /new/recoverd-file.ext

aspectRatio () { for i in `seq 1 1000 `; do awk "BEGIN {print $1/$i, $2/$i}"; done |grep -v "\."; }

2012-03-07 06:22:25

User: totti

Functions: awk grep

Tags: resolution image aspect ratio

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Aspect ratio of a resolution

EG: aspectRatio 1920 1200

For display a image in full screen it should be in any of the resolution obtained from the output. So resize an image to any of it and you can display it in full screen

For general aspect ratio :

aspectRatio () { for i in `seq 1 1000 `; do awk "BEGIN {print $1/$i, $2/$i}"; done |grep -v "\." |tail -1; }

redshiftgui -o -b 0.5

2012-02-26 16:10:02

User: totti

Tags: protect brightness

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Protect your eye

Redshift will adjust the color temperature and protects eye at night

-b : will adjust the brightness

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identify image.jpg |grep -o "[[:digit:]]*x[[:digit:]]*" |tail -1

2012-02-19 06:49:38

User: totti

Functions: grep tail

Tags: ImageMagick resolution image

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Resolution of a image

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