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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Use 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 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 MoreUseful VIM tips when using this editor on Linux.
Some very useful VIM tips when using this editor on Linux. When you open a folder instead of a file in VIM, you get a directory listing and this allows you to select a file. Just scroll down to the file you want to open and press ENTER. " ============================================================================…
Read MoreRecording from line-in with Audacity on Linux Mint 12.
I have my mobile telephone connected with a male-male 3.5mm cable to my computer and I wanted to record segments from the radio to the computer with Audacity. This is how I achieved that. And also configuring the alsamixer settings properly to enable the line-in port as the capture source…
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 MoreUseful C++ snippet. A better way to read in a sentence with STDIN.
This is a very useful C++ code snippet for reading a line of text into STDIN. Hopefully, this will be useful to someone. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 #include <iostream> #include <string.h> #include…
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 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 the command line to change GTK settings easily.
The settings used by the file chooser in MATE or Gnome can be changed easily with the command line. The gsettings utility makes this easy. This example will alter the Firefox file chooser, it will have directories listed first, in descending order, sorted by date modified. gsettings set org.gtk.Settings.FileChooser sort-column…
Read MoreHow to append text to a file in C++ and some other tips.
This is a nice example in C. This will append text to a file whenever it is run. This is the proper way to do this in this programming language. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 #include <stdlib.h> #include <stdio.h> int…
Read MoreHow to create a bash alias that can take arguments.
This bash alias will take a directory name or path as an argument. alias goto=’cd $1’alias goto=’cd $1′ This is an example of how this alias works. jason@jason-desktop:~$ goto /usr/share jason@jason-desktop:/usr/share$jason@jason-desktop:~$ goto /usr/share jason@jason-desktop:/usr/share$ This is a very neat bash trick. This might not work if the directory name uses…
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