Tag: cli

Master tmux for dev work: sessions, windows, panes, layout scripting, hooks, and pane syncing, the commands that turn one terminal into many.

socat wires TCP, UDP, Unix sockets, files, and serial ports together. Port forwarding, OpenSSL tunnels, traffic capture, this is netcat with superpowers.

Bash tricks that save keystrokes, history expansion, brace expansion, process substitution, and the shortcuts your fingers will thank you for.

Set, verify, and sync your timezone in Ubuntu using timedatectl, one command to fix the clock on a newly provisioned server.

mogrify from ImageMagick batch-processes images, resize, convert, compress, and apply effects to entire directories at once.

The docker compose commands you actually use daily, up, down, logs, exec, pull, and the flags that make them way more useful.

Use su with a specific shell to switch users without the default login shell, useful when /etc/passwd points to something unexpected.

Essential bash utilities for Ubuntu newcomers, file management, text processing, process control, and the commands you'll type every day.

Control Linux audio volume and mic boost from the terminal with ALSA's amixer, no GUI needed, no remembering cryptic card numbers.

Find your Linux distro version, kernel version, and architecture with uname, lsb_release, /etc/os-release, and hostnamectl.

Remove spaces and special characters from filenames using bash loops, rename, find, and parameter expansion tricks.

Fix 'Argument list too long' in bash when cp or rsync chokes on thousands of files, glob loops, find + xargs, and the ARG_MAX reason behind it.