Author: Binny V A

A philosopher programmer who specializes in backend development and stoicism.

Extract to Given Folder

August 22, 2008

extract a tarball into / tmp tar -xvf archive.tar -C /tmp

August 8, 2008

FFMPEG command to mix an audio file with a video file to create a final video. ffmpeg -vcodec flv -qscale…

August 6, 2008

Linux command to convert a video file to PSP format using ffmpeg. After converting, copy the OutputFile to the video…

July 31, 2008

Show contents of an archive tar -tf archive.tar

July 30, 2008

Allows write opening of a file only append mode chattr +a file

July 27, 2008

check correct syntax and file format of ‘/etc/passwd’ and users existence pwck

July 25, 2008

Check correct syntax and file format of ‘/etc/group’ and groups existence grpck

July 24, 2008

Delete a user ( ‘-r’ eliminates home directory) userdel -r user1

July 23, 2008

Set deadline for user password chage -E 2008-12-31 user_name

July 22, 2008

Change a user’s attributes usermod -c “User FTP” -g system -d /ftp/user1 -s /bin/nologin user1