Category: Command Line

Install Docker on Ubuntu and Configure it to use a non-default directory.

If you want someone on the internet to access a service/port on your local system(and you have access to a remote server), you can use SSH Tunnel to do this.

Renames all the files in the current folder based on the Exif date of that image. You’ll need the ‘jhead’ command tool – use apt-get to install it.

Gets data from a MySql database, splits the data into separate columns, then uses one column in a URL to download something – and uses other column to name the file thats downloaded

Get the intro paragraph of any wikipedia article using this trick… dig +short txt “<keyword>”.wp.dg.cx

Encrypt/Decript files in linux #Encypt… gpg -c <Source File> #Decrypt… gpg <Encrypted File>

Compress the big image files

This is how you iterate thru a text file outputting a line at a time in Bash shell scripting.

Convert RAW files to JPEG in batch. Convert all files in a folder using a command. For this to work, first you must have ‘ufraw’ package installed. sudo apt-get install ufraw or sudo yum install ufraw depending on your OS

This command will send a line from a given text file one every 10 mins as an SMS to a given number.