Need to extract a bzip2 or gzip file? well here’s how to do it :
Bzip2 in the file.bz2 format :
a tar file with bzip2 compression :
A tar file with no compression :
A tar file with Gzip compression :
A 7zip file :
Rar Files :
Want to know how to set the timezone in Ubuntu? well timedatectl is a powerful command-line tool that can be used to view and change the system’s time and date settings. This article provides step-by-step instructions on how to use timedatectl to set the timezone, and it also covers some of the common problems that users may encounter.
if you need a simple way to remove spaces from file names and replace with an underscore or a hyphen or whatever else here is a bash one liner. You can also do this via python or perl or most likely via php (why? o.0) but since bash / zsh is here and readily available…
I needed to copy files generated by doxygen from one directory into another for a large opensource C++ project. Sadly there were too many files in the directory, so bash started complaining 🙁 cp and rsync died out with the error of argument list too long. initially I figured I could generate it all from…
Running out of HDD space is pretty annoying. So if you are running out of space and need to find out what’s taking up all that space type the following command to find out more : du -h / |grep ‘[0-9]G’ this will give you feedback somewhat like the following.
Virustotal is a webapp that lets you upload files to check them for viruses before you install them. You can also scan a URL directly or search the VirusTotal database. The great thing about virustotal is that it checks the uploaded file against many commercial antivirus and malware detection engines not just one, and then…
Why use ZShell It has some amazing features, but right out of the gate in no particular order: Context based tab completion that puts most others out there to shame. Shared history among tabs. Dynamic Load modules Spelling correction that out performs most others out there. Globbing that works on magic. I am positive of…
