How to search YouTube with the command line on Linux.
How to search YouTube and play a video on the command line with Linux.
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How to call a Linux executable within an Asssember program.
How to run a Linux command within an asm program.
Read MoreUse the powerful ChatGPT bot in your Python scripts with a nice wrapper.
How you can use ChatGPT on the command-line in Linux. This is a Python wrapper.
Read MoreHow to read ABC news items with the command line.
How to extract a listing of all titles from an RSS Feed in XML.
Read MoreComprehensive information about classic Doom.
Some detailed information about the classic PC game Doom from 1993. Command-line parameters and cheats aplenty.
Read MoreAnother useful command for listing the sizes of files in a directory.
The ncdu command for Linux is very good for listing the sizes of the files in a directory. This has many very useful options for use day-to-day.
Read MoreHow to see the network hops to a website with the command line.
How to use the MTR command on Linux to see network hops over a network to a website.
Read MoreHow to generate a very secure password very quickly.
How to use the Linux command line to generate a secure password. And how to create a password string for /etc/shadow with the command line.
Read MoreHow to check image dimensions using the command-line on Linux.
It is very easy to check image dimensions using the command line. Install the exiv2 package and this allows easy retrieval of image information. Just like this. ┌──(john㉿DESKTOP-PF01IEE)-[/mnt/c/Users/Intel i5/Pictures/phone5] └─$ exiv2 ui_icon_equipment.png File name : ui_icon_equipment.png File size : 8626195 Bytes MIME type : image/png Image size : 4096 x…
Read MoreHow to leave a command running when your SSH session is disconnected. Use the nohup command.
Use the nohup command to leave a command running if you are disconnected from the shell If you want to leave a command running if you are disconnected from your SSH session, then use the nohup command, this can be very handy. This is a good example, this will run…
Read MoreBacking up your computer is very important indeed. How to do it with Linux using a simple script.
The importance of backing up your computer can not be understated. This is an integral part of using a computer, judging by the outages of various cloud backup services like Microsoft Azure and other cloud services it is not a good idea to only use a cloud service like Google…
Read MoreHow to add a new user on Ubuntu server and add a desktop environment if desired.
Adding a new user to the Ubuntu server is very simple. The useradd command may be used in a script to create multiple users very easily. This is a very good bash shell script to create a bunch of users in one go. All you need to do after this…
Read MoreObscure Linux bash shell tricks and tips.
Some useful Bash shell tricks There are a lot of obscure Bash shell tricks for the Linux shell that is useful for showing off shell tricks and making your shell usage easier. For a first example, run this command. ubuntu ~ $ ls -hulaubuntu ~ $ ls -hula Then run…
Read MoreUsing the sysctl command on Linux to return hardware information. And some other related commands.
The sysctl command on Linux may be used to return information about your installed hardware; as well as virtual memory information. Below is an example looking at virtual memory information. zsh 7 % sysctl -a | grep vm sysctl: permission denied on key ‘kernel.cad_pid’ sysctl: permission denied on key ‘kernel.usermodehelper.bset’…
Read MoreVery useful Linux tips for 2021.
There are still some very useful tips for using Linux in 2021. Just like this. Getting the size on the disk of a folder. The du -ack -h | tail -n 1 command will do this. ┌──[[email protected]]─[~/Music] └──╼ ╼ $ du -ack -h | tail -n 1 8.2G total┌──[[email protected]]─[~/Music] └──╼…
Read MoreHow to control your Pulseaudio sound volume using the command line.
Pulseaudio can easily be controlled with the command line. The pactl utility is used to control the sound volume of a Pulseaudio sink. List all sinks with this command. jason@jason-desktop:~$ pactl list sinksjason@jason-desktop:~$ pactl list sinks Then look through the list to see which is the device you wish to…
Read MoreHow to push changes from a local project to a GitHub repository.
Updating an open-source project is very easy. This can be done just fine with the command line. In this example, I am listing the files in a repository. 4.4 Tue Jun 16 jason@Yog-Sothoth 1: $ git ls-tree -r master –name-only LICENSE README.md makefile src/iface.h src/strings.h src/sysinfo.cpp src/sysinfo.h system-info4.4 Tue Jun…
Read MoreDo not use cat when you can avoid it. This is very annoying.
The unneeded use of the cat command is very annoying, this is wasteful. Something like this is very annoying to see. cat unixhell.txt | sed ‘s/program/application/g’cat unixhell.txt | sed ‘s/program/application/g’ Do it like this instead. This is the proper way to use sed. sed ‘s/program/application/g’ unixhell.txtsed ‘s/program/application/g’ unixhell.txt The user…
Read MoreSet the theme for the Ubuntu MATE desktop with the command line.
Setting themes for the Ubuntu MATE desktop is very easy, but it can be done with the command line. This is very simple to do. The command below will set the GTK theme as “Bluebird”. This works instantly and would be very useful in a script to quickly set up…
Read MoreHow to use find on Linux to find and display a list of files.
The Linux find command is very useful for finding certain files. I will show how to search a folder and return a listing of files. This example below shows how to list all webm and gif files in the directory and all subdirectories. 4.4 Fri Feb 21 jason@Yog-Sothoth 0: $…
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