November | 2007

30 Nov

Linux command to get the MD5 of a File

Use this command to find the MD5 of a file.


md5sum file.txt

28 Nov

Use this command to create a new brach in a git Repository


git branch NameOfNewBranch

28 Nov

Fish shell has an easy method to create a command alias…


alias del='rm'
save_function del

27 Nov

You can connect to a remote mysql server if you have the necessary permissions…


mysql -h mysql.remote.com -u user

25 Nov

Change all occurrences of ‘one’ to ‘two’ in the file.txt file in the grep example, enter this:


sed 's/one/two/g' file.txt

23 Nov

Converting a Video file


mencoder -ovc xvid -oac mp3lame -xvidencopts bitrate=878 -o destination.avi source.avi

22 Nov

Shows a small GUI dialog similar to alert with the specified message.


xmessage 'Hello'

21 Nov

RAR Support in Linux is easy – just install the unrar tool…


sudo yum install unrar

19 Nov

See how long your machine has been running


uptime

Example Output
23:42:28 up 6:20, 2 users, load average: 0.16, 0.22, 0.17

23:42:28 – Current Time
6:20 – The system was on for 6 hours and 20 mins

19 Nov

Installing the dependencies for HTML Validator extension for Firefox on linux.


sudo yum install compat-libstdc++-296 compat-libstdc++-33 tidy