Archive for June, 2008

Play MPlayer in full Screen

Play the video in full screen using mplayer.


mplayer -zoom -x 1024 -y 768 -fs -framedrop FILE

Rsync via SSH tunnel

Rsync via SSH tunnel


rsync -rogpav -e ssh --delete /home/binnyva 192168.0.30:/var/Backup/home

Show Free RAM

This command shows the free RAM space in MB


free -m

Exclude Removable Partitions from a ‘find’ Search

Search files with ‘.rpm’ extension ignoring removable partitions as cdrom, pen-drive, etc.


find / -xdev -name \*.rpm

Show Shared Libraries

Show shared libraries required by ssh program


ldd /usr/bin/ssh

Installing Rails

You can install Rails in a Fedora system with these commands…


yum -y install ruby ruby-devel ruby-irb ruby-libs ruby-rdoc ruby-ri rubygems
sudo gem update
sudo gem install rails --include-dependencies

Get the Plain Text Version of a Web Page

This command fetches a web page, converts it to text and shows it.


lynx -dump http://www.example.com/