Category: Command Line

Run a remote GUI tool in a local system ssh -X neo@192.168.0.30 /usr/bin/kate

Lookup hostname to resolve name to ip address and viceversa nslookup www.example.com

Backup content of the harddrive to a file. Creates an image of the drive dd if=/dev/sda of=/tmp/sda.iso

repair / check integrity of ext2 filesystem on disk hda1 fsck.ext2 /dev/hda1

Configure static route to reach network ‘192.168.0.0/16’ route add -net 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.0.0 gw 192.168.1.1

This command will import all the MySQL sql dumps in the current folder. You can use this to restore your…

Configure the default gateway route add -net 0/0 gw IP_Gateway

See what your users are doing using SSH connected to your system – this will show you what happens on…

Show link status of all interfaces ip link show

An easier way to batch convert images using the ‘convert’ command… #!/bin/sh # An Easy command to use the convert…