Listing files on a remote machine is very easy. Rsync is the best way to do this. It can be used to transfer a bunch of files from one machine to another, but it also can be used to list a remote directory. Here is a very useful example. ┌──[[email protected]]─[~] └──╼ ╼ $ rsync –list-only … Read more
This nice command allows streaming some nice ambient drone music in the terminal with MPV. Very nice to listen to while doing other things. mpv http://ice.somafm.com/dronezone | sed -n "s/ icy-title: \(.*\)/\x1b[38;5;242m$(date +%T)\x1b[m | \1/p"mpv http://ice.somafm.com/dronezone | sed -n "s/ icy-title: \(.*\)/\x1b[38;5;242m$(date +%T)\x1b[m | \1/p" Play a Youtube video audio only, this is another way … Read more
The network adapter name is easy to return on Linux. This simple one-liner will give this information to the user. jason@Yog-Sothoth » ~ » $ ip -o -4 route show to default | awk '{print $5}' enp0s25 Using this information to get information about a network adapter. jason@Yog-Sothoth » ~ » $ ethtool -T `ip … Read more
The ls command may be used in conjunction with grep to list files that start with an uppercase letter or have an uppercase filename. ┌──(john㉿DESKTOP-PF01IEE)-[~/Documents] └─$ ls | grep "^[A-Z]" Boomsrc Hope is the good thing(The Shawshank Redemption 1994). [JAmspaaSNzE].f140.m4a Hope is the good thing(The Shawshank Redemption 1994). [JAmspaaSNzE].f160.mp4 Hope is the good thing(The Shawshank … Read more
Uptime. this is a useful command for finding out how long a Linux system has been running for. it also displays the load average over 1.5 and 15 minute intervals. deep-thought ~ # uptime 21:45:32 up 32 min, 3 users, load average: 1.88, 1.45, 1.08deep-thought ~ # uptime 21:45:32 up 32 min, 3 users, load … Read more
Below we see output of the ls command when listing a directory. The –color=auto parameter allows the use of color if your terminal supports it. And since everyone either uses Konsole or Gnome Terminal; this command will always work. I am using zsh at the moment; but this works with just about any shell. ls … Read more
We are taking another look at our database table and we are wanting to only view records that match certain criteria. This is easy with the SELECT statement. mysql> select * from operatingsystems where vendor in ("Microsoft","Mint"); +——+————————+———+———–+ | OsID | Name | Type | vendor | +——+————————+———+———–+ | 1 | Windows 3.0 | Windows … Read more