Useful Linux shell tricks. Using Brace expansions to create folders.

The Linux command-line offers many useful methods of creating many folders on your computer at once.  This command will create a few folders on your system named one,two,three,four and create the folders five,six,seven,eight within each folder created. ~$ mkdir -p {one,two,three,four}/five/six/seven/eight~$ mkdir -p {one,two,three,four}/five/six/seven/eight This command will create four folders named one,two,three,four and put the … Read more

Install the cockpit service on your Linux server and administer it from any PC on your network.

The cockpit service for Linux enables remote administration of a Linux PC from a client machine running any web browser. Installing this on Linux Mint is very easy. I am using Linux Mint 18.1 Firstly, run this command to install the PPA. jason@jason-virtual-machine ~ $ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:cockpit-project/cockpitjason@jason-virtual-machine ~ $ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:cockpit-project/cockpit Then update … Read more