How to use SSH to copy remote files from a server to your local machine.

This simple one-liner will copy all files into a tarball, send the compressed files over a secure SSH connection and then uncompress the files into a local directory. ┌──(john㉿DESKTOP-PF01IEE)-[~/website] └─$ ssh [email protected] -p 2222 "cd arma3/ ; tar cBf – ." | tar xvBf – [email protected]’s password: ./ ./README ./example_urllist.txt ./example_config.xml ./sitemap_gen.pl┌──(john㉿DESKTOP-PF01IEE)-[~/website] └─$ ssh [email protected]Read more

How to merge sound and video in FFmpeg. This is very helpful sometimes.

To merge a Video file and an audio file, only FFmpeg is required. I needed the audio from one other video, I ripped it like this. ffmpeg -i Online-1.mp4 -vn -acodec copy output-audio.aacffmpeg -i Online-1.mp4 -vn -acodec copy output-audio.aac Then I could use this command to merge the aac audio with a silent video to … Read more

How to copy files from your machine to a backup drive. And how to do it over a network.

How to use rsync to send files from your hard disk to a backup drive. This example will copy the files from a folder to a backup drive and the ipinfo folder will be created on your backup HDD. rsync -av Documents/ipinfo/ /media/jason/Seagate\ Expansion\ Drive/Linux/ipinfo/ sending incremental file list created directory /media/jason/Seagate Expansion Drive/Linux/ipinforsync -av … Read more

Copy files from one place to another with dd. This is a good way to write an ISO to a USB drive or just to another place.

The dd utility may be used to copy a file from one place to another, this is good to copy a ISO file to a USB thumb drive. This parameter is good for getting feedback about how long a file copy is taking, this is good if it is a big file. bs=4M oflag=direct,dsyncbs=4M oflag=direct,dsync … Read more

How to copy text from the terminal to the clipboard.

To copy text to the clipboard from the Linux command line in Xorg, we need to install a nice utility called xclip. This will allow us to copy text from the terminal to the clipboard. Install xclip. jason@jason-desktop:~$ sudo apt install xclipjason@jason-desktop:~$ sudo apt install xclip Then create the bash alias we need for this … Read more

Enable copy and paste to and from a VMware Kali Linux instance.

Kali Linux runs very well in a VM, but having copy and paste to and from the Virtual Machine is very helpful. To get this working in VMware Pro 12, install these packages. Firstly, this one. root@kali:~# apt-get install open-vm-toolsroot@kali:~# apt-get install open-vm-tools Then this one. root@kali:~# apt-get install open-vm-tools-desktoproot@kali:~# apt-get install open-vm-tools-desktop Then copy … Read more

How to use SFTP on Linux and copy files easily.

This video shows how to use the SFTP command on Linux and transfer files easily. How to use sftp to retrieve files from a remote Linux server securely. https://securitronlinux.com/debian-testing/how-to-use-sftp-to-retrieve-files-from-a-remote-linux-server-securely/. Copy a file from one UNIX/Linux machine to another using the sftp utility. https://securitronlinux.com/debian-testing/copy-a-file-from-one-unixlinux-machine-to-another-using-the-sftp-utility/. How to upload files to your Amazon AWS instance using the bash … Read more

Windows 8 copy and move operations to be overhauled.

This HTML5 video isn’t supported in your browser. If you don’t see a video here or can’t play it, download it here: High quality MP4 | Low quality MP4 The copy and move operations in Windows are to be repaired, previously in Windows the copy and move operations were quite hit and miss with the … Read more