Category: Command Line

Rip audio tracks from a CD to wav files cd-paranoia -B

Burn a compressed ISO image gzip -dc cd_iso.gz | cdrecord dev=/dev/cdrom

Show all deb packages with the name “httpd” dpkg -l | grep httpd

Shows all partitions on the HDD fdisk -l

Upgrade a rpm package only if it is already installed rpm -F package.rpm

Resize all JPG Files to 800×600 convert -sample 800×600 *.jpg output_file_name

Show all rpm packages installed on the system rpm -qa

Import public-key digital signature rpm –import /media/cdrom/RPM-GPG-KEY

Grep that searches recursively, ignores binary files, and doesn’t look inside Subversion hidden folders. grep -Ir –exclude=”*\.svn*” “pattern” *

Linux command to create a random password head -n1 /dev/urandom|md5sum -b|head -c 5