Author: Binny V A

A philosopher programmer who specializes in backend development and stoicism.

Change the Shell

Use this command to change the default shell you are using. chsh

Mount Windows Network Share with Samba

Use this command to mount a share on a windows system. It uses Samba. mount -t smbfs -o username=user,password=pass //WinClient/share…

Sort and Unique

Sort contents of a file and remove repeated lines sort file.txt | uniq

Restore Backup Created by dump

Restoring a backup created by the dump command. restore -if home_backup.bak

A Shell Script to Create a Build of Firefox Extension

This shell script will create a build of a firefox extension in linux. This is created according to my details(eg,…

Show all Installed Packages in Debian

Show all deb packages installed on the system dpkg -l

Incremental Backup using dump

Make a incremental backup of directory ‘/home/binnyva’ dump -1aj -f home.bak /home/binnyva/

Backup Using ‘dump’ command

Make a full backup of directory ‘/home’ dump -0aj -f home.bak /home

Remove Even Lines

This command removes all the even lines from the file given as the argument cat example.txt|awk ‘NR%2==1’

lsattr

Show specials attributes lsattr