Tag: scripting

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.

Create, modify, and delete users and groups on Linux, useradd, usermod, groupadd, sudo access, and /etc/passwd explained.

journalctl, grep, awk, and tail -f, read your Linux logs like a pro and find the error before it pages you at 3 AM.

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.

Build a video slideshow from static images with a voiceover track using FFmpeg, concat filters, fade transitions, and audio sync.

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.

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.