Month: July 2009

top in Batch Mode

Run top in batch mode top -b -d 10 -n 3

Trasfer over the network

Transfer stdin and stdout to and from machines over the network ssh remote_machine ‘cat – > file’ < file

Add Line Numbers

Use this command to add line numbers to a text file… sed = filename.txt | sed ‘N;s/\n/\t/’ > filename_number.txt

Install Package List

Install a list of packages from a text file. cat packages.txt | xargs apt-get install

Rename Command

Different way to use the rename command. rename ‘s/.html$/.php/’ *.html

Get a Random Futurama Quote

Useless – but fun – get a random Futurama Quote curl -Is slashdot.org | egrep ‘^X-(F|B)’ | cut -d \-…

Create Random Password

Use this command to create a random password < /dev/urandom tr -dc A-Za-z0-9_ | head -c8 Also see…