Commands by rawm (2)

  • make soft links from a downloaded bin folder


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    ls | while read line; do ln -s "$(pwd)/$line" "/usr/bin/$line"; done
    rawm · 2015-03-24 06:47:56 10
  • check repos list for fastest ping

    This helps me determine which repo I want to use for downloading ISO files Show Sample Output


    0
    cat repos.txt | while read line; do echo $line | cut -d"/" -f 3 | fping -e ;done
    rawm · 2015-02-17 06:34:07 9

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