Commands by lineak

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To list all files in your home directory
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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ls -l $HOME

lineak · 2010-09-12 10:56:13 4
To list all files in your home directory
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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ls -l ~

lineak · 2010-09-12 10:55:00 6
Show the UUID of a filesystem or partition

Shows the UUID of the given partition (here /dev/sda7). Doesn't need to be root. Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
/dev/sda7: LABEL="fedora" UUID="ab6f0ee7-ebdd-484a-ae1a-c4053a426e0f" TYPE="ext4"
```
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blkid /dev/sda7

lineak · 2010-09-05 12:20:45 7

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check open ports without netstat or lsof

Convert a Nero Image File to ISO

This line removes the 300k header from a Nero image file converting it to ISO format

Recompress all .gz files in current directory using bzip2 running 1 job per CPU core in parallel

Rename files in batch

list block devices

Shows all block devices in a tree with descruptions of what they are.

list block devices

Shows all block devices in a tree with descruptions of what they are.

Fetch the current human population of Earth

Fetches the world population JSON data from the US census and parses it uses jshon

Find usb device in realtime

Using this command you can track a moment when usb device was attached.

count of down available ips

avoid wc overload ;)

run remote linux desktop

First of all you need to run this command. X :12.0 vt12 2>&1 >/dev/null & This command will open a X session on 12th console. And it will show you blank screen. Now press Alt + Ctrl + F7. You will get your original screen. Now run given command "xterm -display :12.0 -e ssh -X user@remotesystem &". After this press Alt + Ctrl + F12. You will get a screen which will ask you for password for remote linux system. And after it you are done. You can open any window based application of remote system on your desktop. Press Alt + Ctrl + F7 for getting original screen.

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