Linux Tips

Contents:

• 1. Linux Tips
  • 1.1. Redirecting Standard Error to Standard Out
  • 1.2. Making a patch file
  • 1.3. Copying directory trees
  • 1.4. Getting landscape output
  • 1.5. Verifying Red Hat packages
  • 1.6. Security: Watching the watchers…
  • 1.7. Stripping comments:
  • 1.8. Verifying all RPM’s
  • 1.9. Viewing post-installation RPM scripts
  • 1.10. What are we listening to?
  • 1.11. Finding duplicate files with identical contents
  • 1.12. Listing DNS stuff
  • 1.13. Who’s been sleeping in MY bed?
  • 1.14. Clip-clip. Taking care of really LONG lines
  • 1.15. Find and delete
  • 1.16. Formatting and using a floppy
  • 1.17. Mounting an NSF device
  • 1.18. Searching for files and manipulating them
  • 1.19. Starting a remote X windows program on a local screen
  • 1.20. Making a boot floppy
  • 1.21. Switching parallel from printer to ZIP
  • 1.22. More fun with RPM’s
  • 1.23. Burning CD’s
  • 1.24. Turning off NetQUE broadcasts
  • 1.25. Checking out from CVS
  • 1.26. Streaming with Icecast and Darwin
  • 1.27. Pretty-printing code as web pages
  • 1.28. md5sum
  • 1.29. Slow Hand
  • 1.30. Synchronizing with rsync
  • 1.31. Exploring binary RPM’s without installing them
  • 1.32. Renaming all files in a directory
  • 1.33. “rpm -qil” in Debian
  • 1.34. Handling NULL’s in PostgreSQL
  • 1.35. Using BitTorrent with RedHat
  • 1.36. Decoding base-64 encoded text
  • 1.37. Optimizing SQL field lengths
  • 1.38. A light at the end of the tunnel
  • 1.39. Paper size
  • 1.40. GNU Privacy Guard (GPG) tip
  • 1.41. Searching for strings using grep the right way
  • 1.42. Handling files with spaces in the name
  • 1.43. Fancier apache protection
  • 1.44. Restoring files with cp
  • 1.45. QR Codes as SVG
  • 1.46. Inserting lines at the start of a file
  • 1.47. Floating image in reStructuredText
  • 1.48. Learning Assembler !!!
  • 1.49. Rectangular blocks in emacs
  • 1.50. git “mirroring”
  • 1.51. Copying between two remote machines
  • 1.52. Sledgehammer “git pull”
  • 1.53. Sucking down a web site directory tree
  • 1.54. Stop annoying animated GIFs
  • 1.55. Platform-provided Python packages
  • 1.56. Pretty-print XML
  • 1.57. Reformatting XML a la Emacs
  • 1.58. Adding an upstream repository to a forked repository
  • 1.59. Searching for Unicode characters
  • 1.60. Running multiple commands in Bash
  • 1.61. Bash: for i in range()
  • 1.62. Bash substrings
  • 1.63. Compare two files ignoring whitespace AND newlines
  • 1.64. Convert JPG to SVG in one swell foop
  • 1.65. Convert MIDI to MP3 in one swell foop
  • 1.66. Expand MP4 to PNG frames
  • 1.67. Running two applications in parallel
  • 1.68. Create a new file with lines matching several patterns deleted
  • 1.69. Making terminal command-line “movies”
  • 1.70. Reversing a video