Category: Command Line

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

Install a rpm package ignoring dependencies requests rpm -ivh –nodeeps package.rpm

This command uses ffmpeg to convert a regular video into 3gp format thats used in mobile phones ffmpeg -i input_video.mp4…

Find out the ownership details of a domain using this simple command… whois openjs.com

Scan bus to identify the drives cdrecord –scanbus

active interface ‘eth0’ in dhcp mode dhclient eth0

Monitor the result of some command by looping it an infinite while loop. To quit, press Ctrl+C. Thanks to Sreenath…

Perform an md5sum on a device, like a CD dd if=/dev/hdc | md5sum

You can use this command to convert a Bin/Cue image to an ISO image in a linux system. You may…