A very nice .vimrc file for any Linux user, this makes VI or VIM easier to use. " ~/.vimrc (configuration file for vim only) " skeletons function! SKEL_spec() 0r /usr/share/vim/current/skeletons/skeleton.spec language time en_US if $USER != ” let login = $USER elseif $LOGNAME != ” let login = $LOGNAME else…
Read MoreSorting the output of ls by date modified is very easy. This is how to sort output and display the few most recent files. This example shows how to do this. Use head – 20 to list only the top 20 results. 4.4 Tue May 21 jason@Yog-Sothoth 0: $ ls…
Read MoreHow to do various file listing tricks on Linux to find various files. Get a listing of all files in /bin that contain the letters ‘ls’ and output the file details. 4.4 Tue Mar 05 jason@Yog-Sothoth 0: $ find /bin -type f -name ‘*ls*’ -ls 3933382 132 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root…
Read MoreThis Google search term will find all folders on the Internet with files for download. Predators -inurl:(htm|html|php|pls|txt) intitle:index.of “last modified” (mp4|wma|aac|avi)Predators -inurl:(htm|html|php|pls|txt) intitle:index.of “last modified” (mp4|wma|aac|avi) This Google Dork will find all Administrator login pages on the Internet, that are accessible from the `net. inurl /administrator/index.php autologin=1inurl /administrator/index.php autologin=1 Find…
Read MoreThe new Windows 10 update includes a feature that auto deletes user`s important files. This is very embarrassing, this does protect sensitive files from the prying eyes of the NSA, but it is not good if your prized wedding photos are deleted. It consistently amazes me that people do not…
Read MoreI have updated my System Information project, I used git to push changes to the repo from my local machine. This is not too hard. Add files to the main branch like this. jason@Yog-Sothoth:~/Documents/sysinfo$ git add src/iface.hjason@Yog-Sothoth:~/Documents/sysinfo$ git add src/iface.h Then push the changes to the repo. jason@Yog-Sothoth:~/Documents/sysinfo$ git push…
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 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 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 MoreLinux configuration files Here are a few useful Linux configuration files to get your installation setup and working just fine. ~/.vimrc. This is to setup the VIM editor and make it easier to use for the average Linux user. " ~/.vimrc (configuration file for vim only) " skeletons function! SKEL_spec()…
Read MoreGet ahold of the Mac OSX Sierra password files This is how to list the password files on a Macintosh machine, but the folder is only readable by the superuser. deusexmachina:~ jason$ sudo ls -l /var/db/dslocal/nodes/Default/usersdeusexmachina:~ jason$ sudo ls -l /var/db/dslocal/nodes/Default/users This will return a listing of many files that…
Read MoreI ran a Perl script on my system that created a bunch of files on my computer named as shown below. I could have typed rm -f A* but that could have deleted other files that have a capital “A” as the first letter of the filename. That is where…
Read MoreThere are a few ways on Linux to list the files in a directory with the files in order of file size, but I am going to show the easiest ways to accomplish this task. Using the ls command. The ls command is the easy way to list all files…
Read MoreThis example is using grep on an assembler file to find an exact match for a certain line in the file and which line number it appears on. ubuntu ~/Documents $ grep -x -n "; copy the virus, we have also to copy the section table, located before" virii.S 143:;…
Read MoreComplex .bashrc file for Linux or UNIX Very good and very complex .bashrc file for a Linux or UNIX system. I used this one ages ago and it is great to use. I have tried this on FreeBSD and Open Solaris and it works on either. #!/bin/bash # mode:shell-script #…
Read MoreFinding files with the Linux command line. Using find & locate The find command on Linux is very useful for finding commands on your Linux installation. In the example below, I am using wild-cards to look for all the c source files in a certain folder. neo@deusexmachina:~/Documents$ find -name "*.c"…
Read MoreThe shred command on Linux is the perfect way to remove files securely from your Linux system. With a large amount of iterations, it will ensure that it is very difficult to get the data back. the -u parameter will delete the file after the overwriting process. neo@deusexmachina:~$ shred -n…
Read MoreSome system configuration files on Linux and what they do /etc/profile This configuration file controls the system-wide environment variables. This contains the PATH variable that controls where binaries may be run from system-wide. /etc/motd This file contains a message that will be visible above the login prompt on the virtual…
Read MoreCopying a file with sftp from one UNIX machine to another is very easy. The command below uses the SSH protocol and initiates a connection to the remote PC. ubuntu ~ $ sftp -P 443 [email protected] ~ $ sftp -P 443 [email protected] Press ENTER and type your password. The user…
Read MoreThis command will search a directory recursively to find files matching a pattern. C:\Users\Homer>where /R C:\Users\homer\Documents *.txt C:\Users\Homer\Documents\age-of-ultron-script-outline.txt C:\Users\Homer\Documents\windows10key.txt C:\Users\Homer\Documents\Downloads\Linux The Complete Manual 2nd Edition (TRUE PDF)\Torrent downloaded from AhaShare.com.txt C:\Users\Homer\Documents\Downloads\Linux The Complete Manual 2nd Edition (TRUE PDF)\Torrent Downloaded From ExtraTorrent.cc.txt C:\Users\Homer\Documents\Downloads\Linux The Complete Manual 2nd Edition (TRUE PDF)\tracked_by_h33t_com.txt C:\Users\Homer\Documents\Downloads\Linux…
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