How to have a transparent rxvt terminal on a Linux desktop Transparent rxvt files. This is a very useful script to create a transparent rxvt terminal for a user who likes a pretty terminal to do day to day tasks in. #!/bin/bash # This is a shell script that provides…
Read MoreThis simple command prints out a long random number string from /dev/urandom. jason@Yog-Sothoth » img » $ tr -dc "[:digit:]" < /dev/urandom | head -c 64 ; echo 9958048462925775253231939134565711861924198983498274782350446110 Do it this way to remove the newline after the output. This would be good for use in a script. jason@Yog-Sothoth…
Read MoreThis is a very interesting one-liner. This will batch rename files according to wildcards. jason@Yog-Sothoth » Pictures » $ for i in *.png; do mv -vi — "${i}" "$(date +%s%3N).${i#*.}"; done This renames files with a filename generated using the UNIX epoch. I guess this could be useful to someone…
Read MoreThe MATE Disk Usage Analyser is a very good way to get disk usage information in a graphical fashion. The above example, shows the usage on the whole Linux filesystem. MATE Disk Usage Analyser showing information about my home directory. The user can click each folder to view disk usage…
Read MoreA code sample that creates a weapon box with some ammo. Just change the class names to add a weapon of your choice to this box. class cfgVehicles { class Thing; class ThingX; class ReammoBox; class Strategic; class EAST_Box_Base; class NATO_Box_Base; class Railgun_Transport_Box: EAST_Box_Base { scope = 2; vehicleClass =…
Read MoreThere are many ways to list directories and sort the results by size. I have just found another way. Use the ls command with the -S parameter. This sorts files by size. Very useful way to get the largest files in a certain directory. Linux has so many varied methods…
Read MoreThe files in /etc/skel are for the creation of new user accounts, but if they are deleted accidentally, they are no good no anyone. This is how to re-download these files and restore them. Firstly, download the bash package to an empty directory. ason@Yog-Sothoth » bash » $ apt download…
Read MoreThis nice on-liner will list all dotfiles in your home directory that start with b to z. Another good way to accomplish this task. jason@Yog-Sothoth » ~ » $ ls -hula -d .[b-z]* |grep -v ^d -rw——- 1 jason jason 13K Jun 20 10:45 .bash_history -rw-r–r– 1 jason jason 220…
Read MoreI hate it when a plugin author updates their plugin and upon updating it, you get a PHP error that prevents you from running your website, necessitating that you log into your Cpanel to fix the problem. That is great. Why can they not test the plugin first before deploying…
Read MoreThis post will show how easy it is to rip the audio from a video file and save it to a wav file. This works very well and is a good way to make an OGG Vorbis file from a Youtube video the user has downloaded. Use this long command…
Read MoreThis post will show you how to open a certain GTK application, like Gedit or Firefox, and force it to use a certain GTK theme. This example uses the Gedit editor. I am opening the editor using the BlackMATE theme. jason@Yog-Sothoth » ~ » $ env GTK_THEME="BlackMATE" /usr/bin/pluma (pluma:5423):…
Read MoreTo view network traffic and then locate certain traffic that is hogging bandwidth, use the iftop utility. This is a great way to see what is going on in your network. Just install iftop. jason@Yog-Sothoth » ~ » $ sudo apt install iftop Then run it with this one-liner. jason@Yog-Sothoth…
Read MoreTo add a lecture that appears when sudo is run to remind a user to be careful, just run the sudo visudo command and add these two lines to the /etc/sudoers file. Defaults lecture="always" Defaults lecture_file="/root/lecture"Defaults lecture="always" Defaults lecture_file="/root/lecture" Save the file and then add this text to the /root/lecture…
Read MoreThe rsync command with the –list-only parameter allows the user to list filenames on a remote machine. But by default, it looks like this. jason@Yog-Sothoth » ~ » $ rsync –list-only [email protected]:/home/jason/Documents/ [email protected]’s password: drwxr-xr-x 4,096 2018/05/09 09:49:49 . -rw-r–r– 867,863 2018/04/19 12:44:56 altis_insurgency_altis.pbo -rw-rw-r– 681,638 2018/05/04 09:03:16 pg768.txt -rwxrwxr-x…
Read MoreThis GRUB config in the /etc/default/grub file will give a good old-fashioned text boot instead of the graphical bootsplash that we are all familiar with. This works very well on my system, and the user can see exactly what is happening when the machine is booting up. This allows the…
Read MoreThis is how to list some filenames that start with letters and have some numbers in the filenames. This is a very useful Linux trick. jason@Yog-Sothoth » ~ » $ ls -l [A-Z]*[0-9]*.wav -rw-rw-r– 1 jason jason 4399528 Oct 25 2017 gqrx_20171024_232212_33050000.wav -rw-rw-r– 1 jason jason 2378004 Oct 29 2017…
Read MoreThis is how to create a custom bash prompt that will change if the user is in a certain folder, but is standard anywhere else. PS1="┌─╼ \$(if [[ \$PWD/ = \$HOME/anime/* ]]; then \ echo \"\[\e[1;35m\](\[\e[0;35m\] •\[\e[1;35m\]^ ω ^) \[\e[1;34m\]\$(pwd | sed ‘s|’$HOME/anime/’|アニメ |; s|’$HOME/anime’|アニメ |’)\[\e[0m\]\" \ ; else \…
Read MoreGetting information about your CPU with the terminal in Ubuntu 18.04 is very easy. The sensors utility can get information about the CPU temperature. jason@Yog-Sothoth » ~ » $ sensors coretemp-isa-0000 Adapter: ISA adapter Package id 0: +30.0°C (high = +80.0°C, crit = +100.0°C) Core 0: +30.0°C (high = +80.0°C,…
Read MoreThis is an easy way to get information about running services on your Ubuntu machine. I am after user services, so I am using systemctl to get this information. This is very easy. Get information about a certain service. jason@kaio:~$ systemctl status –user pulseaudio ● pulseaudio.service – Sound Service Loaded:…
Read MoreSetting up a file share in Samba is very easy. I am using Ubuntu 17.10. Firstly, install Ubuntu, then install the Samba server. jason@kaio:~$ sudo apt install sambajason@kaio:~$ sudo apt install samba Then create a folder to share from. I made one in the root directory named Share then I…
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